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"They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh."
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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
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"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening."
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"If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded."
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"I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years."
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"These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school."
Love

"They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh."
Want

"I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews."
Wife

"We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on."
Life

"There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it."
Hope

"By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around."
Time

"When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh."
Funny

"I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!"
Men

"I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct."
Father
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