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"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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"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."
"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."
"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it."
"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."
News,
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
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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!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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