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"I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view."
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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."
"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."
"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."
"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."
"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."
"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
"I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals."
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"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."
"You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them."
"My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom."
"It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry."
"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."
"There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy."
"Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior."
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