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"You just never know when you're living in a golden age."
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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script."
"That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further."
"I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much."
"But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about."
"A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs."
"Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally."
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