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"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."
"Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing."
"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."
"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
"American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny."
"Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library."
"So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story."
"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."
"It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."
"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it."
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."
"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."
"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."
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