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There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.

How do I get it made? How do I get it seen? How do I get it in front of the people I want to serve?

The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.

I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.

I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.

I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!

I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger.

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

I feel that I am leading a very normal life, where I am just another working woman like anyone else.

When I avoided interviews, it was mainly because I didn't want to speak only about my personal life.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?

I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

Dick understands what I go through. He understands the difficulty and the brutality of the business.

There is no failure, only a process which is leading us to become the greatest version of ourselves.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.

Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.

I do want to grow our company, so the way I've been doing that is moving 'scary' to different things.

Pause and remember - The more you stay focused on your blessings the less stressed your life will be!

It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

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