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"I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest."

"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."

"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."

"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."

"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."

"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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"Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist."

"It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now."

"Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures."

"In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius."

"And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result."

"Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings."
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