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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

"American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring."

"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."

"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."

"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."

"I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity."

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."
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