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"I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."

"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority."

"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
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"We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men."

"If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it."

"We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing."

"I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it."

"When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then."

"Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care."

"The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night."

"I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV."

"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."
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