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"First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct."
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"Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so."
"A successful person's life is made up of a time when he gets out of bed, and a time he goes to bed; and in-between them is filled up with a time that he makes sure something definitely happened!"
"Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true."
"Many people do not understand why they cannot do well in their lives, even with a lot of training, using short- term and long term plans and most importantly having a huge potential."
"Great men look greater than yesterday."
"Every man has a need to be great at something."
"My success has nothing to do with opportunities or luck, I just keep doing things until it is done."
"What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood."
"The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it."
"When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth."
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"The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable."
"A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect."
"Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made."
"When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came."
"All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me."
"Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time."
"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."
"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."
"Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things."
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