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"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Time

"A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that."
Movies

"I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class."
Civics

"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

"But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday."
People

"I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason."
People

"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."
Movies

"If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing."
People

"You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane."
Cuts

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."
Lie
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything."
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"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
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"Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left."
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."
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