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Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.

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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.

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If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

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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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I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

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If anyone's been around some very long cocaine evenings, there's nothing that's in SCARFACE that we all haven't seen before.

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

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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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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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I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

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I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

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Few characters in history are indispensable.

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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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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

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And is there a movie, whatever the genre here, that I would like to go see If I can see the germ of that there, I'll usually take the job.

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I did a television series in Japan this year, which was really fun, even though it's working with a Japanese crew and I don't speak Japanese.

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Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.

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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 there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

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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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