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"When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'"
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"They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage."
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"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."
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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."
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"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."
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"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."
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"I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."
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"We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this."
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"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."
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"I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere."
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"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."
School
"When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television."
People
"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."
Writing
"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."
Self-Doubt
"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
Cinema
"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."
Thought
"The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college."
Thought
"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
Chaos
"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue."
Science
"I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement."
Education
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