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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Alan Arkin

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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Actor Against Competition Each Field Hard Horse Other Put Race Time Treat
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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Explore Learn Limit Look Opportunity Probing
I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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Bunch Enthusiastic Lean Lot Thing Widely Year
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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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
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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Cockney Electronic Imagine Impossible Indian Negro Sing Southern Ten Year
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
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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Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
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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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
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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Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Amalgamation Beginning Being Culture One Real See World
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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Commercial Country Extension Feel Figure Now Out Rather Tell
There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Annoys Familiarity Fire Hell Out Shock Sometimes
It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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Bring Delusion Peace Seriously Under World
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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Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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Believe Definition Entire God Man People Through Universe
Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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Conclusion Kind Least Mean Some Somehow Together Try Work

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

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