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Ben Stiller

"I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy."

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"I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees."

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Amber Hurdle

"Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen."

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Amber Hurdle

"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

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Amber Hurdle

"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."

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Amber Hurdle

"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

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Amber Hurdle

"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports."

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