If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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