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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."

"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."

"Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody."
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"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."


"When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian."


"It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything."


"Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States."


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


"Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values."


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