If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKINThere’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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