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"As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist."
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking."
"You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s."
"Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end."
"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."
"The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business."
"Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories."
"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."
"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."
"In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president."
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