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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Alan Arkin

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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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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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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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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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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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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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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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 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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