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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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"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
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"When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!"
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"There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?"
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"The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up."
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"People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy."
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"But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house."
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"My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car."
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"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
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"We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs."
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"Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore."
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"I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class."
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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."
Creativity
"I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people."
People
"We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking."
Film
"The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise."
Movies
"Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think."
Movies
"I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day."
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"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."
Hollywood
"Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film."
Movies
"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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