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"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
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"So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to."
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"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."
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"The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same."
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them."
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"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
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"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
Character
"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
Story
"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."
Work
"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture
"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
Expectation
"We create monsters and then we can't control them."
Control
"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
Work
"I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out."
Fact
"Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there."
Movies
"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."
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