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"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."
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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
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"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."
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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."
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"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."
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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
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"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
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"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."
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"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"
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"When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool."
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"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way."
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"The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year."
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"I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around."
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"I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me."
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"Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens."
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"Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me."
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"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."
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"I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer."
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