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"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."

"As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."

"I look for those moments that are "gee whiz" moments. There's some "gee whiz" stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post."

"Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so."

"Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?"

"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."
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"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."

"I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle."

"Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on."

"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."

"I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film."

"What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction."

"We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?"

"I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking."

"All the other guys I think had a scream on Lock, Stock. They just had a laugh and a crack, and thought it would never come out; they were just having a good time. On this one, I felt that."
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