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"If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen."
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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
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"So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills."
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"In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year."
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"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."
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"Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway."
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"I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all."
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"People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet."
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"We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car."
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"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."
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"You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane."
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"The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise."
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"But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday."
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"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."
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"A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that."
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"I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest."
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"I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out."
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"Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think."
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"Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film."
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"We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too."
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