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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
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"In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will."
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"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
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"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"We have to be careful about creating more rules."
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"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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"Restrict bankruptcy rules."
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"I've always found ways to bend the rules."
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"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"
Morals
"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."
Home
"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."
Age
"I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it."
Community
"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."
Challenge
"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."
People
"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
Expectation
"People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint."
Work
"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture
"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."
Box
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