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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."
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"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags."
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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
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"I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else."
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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie."
People
"Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink."
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"I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price."
Business
"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
Movies
"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
American
"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money."
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"I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie."
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"I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2."
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