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"I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture."
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"Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about."

"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."

"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
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"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper."
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"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"

"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."

"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."

"Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy."

"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."

"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
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