For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn’t live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he’s not on the stage he’s on a bus getting to the next stage.
BILL CONDONFirst of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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I think that finding a way into somebody’s life that’s sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it’s time that some of that respect be returned to them.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Sometimes words just don’t get you there… don’t let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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I do think that’s so much a part of what being a director is – in working with actors – to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It’s a melodrama.
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That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.
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I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. ‘Richard Pryor,’ I wrote for – gosh – over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that.
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