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"I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors."
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"I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good."
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"I make movies I want to see."
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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."
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"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."
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"I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order."
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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
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"All I do is go to the movies."
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"What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation."
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"Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre."
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"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."
Acting
"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
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"They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping."
Prison
"I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York."
Character
"The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances."
First
"I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue."
Writing
"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
Martin
"I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it."
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"All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film."
People
"In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene."
Beginning
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