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"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
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"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."
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"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
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"Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good."
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"'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one."
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"As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong."
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"The wrong way always seems the more reasonable."
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"When everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane."
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"We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way."
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"It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong."
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"The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important."
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"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
Wrong
"When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice."
Choice
"Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it."
Soul
"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
Film
"But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make."
Film
"It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it."
Film
"Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated."
Recognition
"I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous."
Parenting
"A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse."
Death
"I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent."
Heart
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