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"There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes."
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"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work."
Work
"The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits."
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"You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes."
People
"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim."
Movies
"When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?"
History
"The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in."
People
"Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make."
Money
"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."
Comedy
"There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie."
Internet
"It's show business. No show, no business."
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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
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