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"The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"

"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"

"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."

"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."
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"I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people."

"Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about."

"I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner."

"Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes."

"We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that."

"It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one."

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
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