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"There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized."
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"The world will never know you because you did not work hard enough."
"The problem is not that we don't recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don't want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it."
"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
"Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil."
"Recognize yourself as a person who has received a precious gift from your creator."
"When you develop your gift, you will be well known."
"We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done."
"Don't worry about getting credit, do the work anyway."
"But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed."
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"It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites."
"Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful."
"It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at."
"It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!"
"Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different."
"I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition."
"It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance."
"He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him."
"There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry."
"No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled."
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