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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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"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"Old foxes want no tutors."
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."
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"I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it."
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"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."
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"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."
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"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."
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"And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made."
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"But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie."
Time
"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."
Time
"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."
People
"You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?"
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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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"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."
People
"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."
Being
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