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"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."
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"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."

"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."

"Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field."

"You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie."

"By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do."

"For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would."

"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."

"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."
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