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"Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone."
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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
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"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."
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"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."
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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."
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"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."
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"Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere."
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"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."
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"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."
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"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."
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"I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience."
Experience
"You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care."
Care
"There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna."
People
"I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer."
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"A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra."
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"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."
Being
"No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing."
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"I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself."
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"Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song."
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"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song."
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