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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.

Alan Arkin

There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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