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"I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts."
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"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner."
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"But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity."
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"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days."
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"I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust."
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"I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. Bullets Over Broadway is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years."
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"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."
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"I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work."
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"When I saw The Player, I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience."
Experience
"Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true."
Cliches
"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."
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