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"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."
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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."
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"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."
"The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!"
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"You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'"
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"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."
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"Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch."
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"I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites."
"I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible."
"One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama."
"But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie."
"But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it."
"It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue."
"Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian."
"Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it."
"If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself."
"It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s."
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