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Ken Thompson

"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."

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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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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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"I manage to hide in my movies."

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