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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."
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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."
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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."
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"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
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"I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies."
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"Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies."
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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."
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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"There's not a lot of good movies being made."
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"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."
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"I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies."
Movies
"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
Film
"There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself."
Music
"You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive."
Time
"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays."
Feelings
"I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling."
Music
"One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it."
Business
"I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions."
Car
"It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there."
Work
"Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score."
Time
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