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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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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 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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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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