If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSA cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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