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"Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out."
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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."

"Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first."

"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."

"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."

"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."

"Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas."
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"I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not."

"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."

"I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do."

"In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there."

"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."

"All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance."

"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

"The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time."
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