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"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
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"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."
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"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."
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"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."
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"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
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"I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl."
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"I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line."
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"And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows."
Care
"There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie."
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"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work."
Work
"The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits."
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"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."
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"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information."
Art
"The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in."
People
"The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do."
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"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."
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