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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."

"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers."

"For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of."

"When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor."

"Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party."

"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish."

"Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries."
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