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Neil Innes

"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

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"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

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Donna Grant

"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."

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Donna Grant

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."

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Donna Grant

"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."

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Donna Grant

"I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."

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Donna Grant

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

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Donna Grant

"I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward."

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Neil Innes
"We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious."

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Neil Innes
"I think most musicians do like to have a laugh."

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Neil Innes
"We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success."

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Neil Innes
"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."

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Neil Innes
"It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?"

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Neil Innes
"I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting."

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Neil Innes
"Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn."

Music

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Neil Innes
"I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes."

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Neil Innes
"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

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Neil Innes
"But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs."

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