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"When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do."
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."
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"I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle."
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"You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be."
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"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."
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"If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell."
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"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."
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"I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings."
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"I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes."
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"My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied."
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"I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned."
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"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"
Morals
"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."
Age
"I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it."
Community
"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."
Challenge
"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."
People
"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
Expectation
"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture
"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them."
People
"You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people."
People
"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
Character
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