You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
ALAN ARKINI had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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