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People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.

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Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

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Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

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Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

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The darker the character, the more interesting.

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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

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The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

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When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

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I always felt like, okay, I'm going to try to tell stories whatever way I can and it would be cool to make a movie, and tell a story that way.

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And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.

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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

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Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.

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The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

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Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.

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Few characters in history are indispensable.

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

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My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

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When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

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We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

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Benicio del Toro. I think he's brilliant, and we like working with guys - or gals - who are very talented. They make us look good.

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You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.

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