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"It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones."
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"We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community."
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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."
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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
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"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."
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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
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"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."
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"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."
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"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
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"If we live in the moment every misery shall fade."
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"Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place."
God
"The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians."
Time
"It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening."
Time
"Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in."
Thought
"I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire."
Humor
"You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie."
Thought
"I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one."
Movies
"Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there."
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"I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off."
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"We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting."
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