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"I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues."
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"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
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"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
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"So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new."
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"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
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"I'm pretty outspoken."
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"We're all pretty ordinary on paper."
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"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."
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"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."
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"I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do."
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"I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds."
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"A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing."
Movies

"Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect."
Business

"I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense."
Movies

"I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people."
Money

"You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money."
Money

"The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me."
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"I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker."
Being

"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live."
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