- Nov 07, 2020
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- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
- Appreciation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!
- Nightmares
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of nightmares.
- Finish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took some time out for life.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of things just aren't true any more.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working on any show that works is the best job you can possibly have in any area of the business. You've got so much going for you, a good community, everybody's hanging together, and you get to do it every week.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know you're in love when you're more yourself than you ever imagined possible.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw 'Annie Hall' with a group of people working in comedy and television. We were all stunned. Stunned. It was like watching a spaceship land. That something that funny could also be that beautiful.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is a matter of course when you get to do your own thing. It's always a gift that can stop giving and probably will.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
A television job that's working is the best job in the world.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The remarkable thing about 9/11 was that journalism pretty much put down its badges. People didn't worry about reacting as human beings. People who weren't reporters reported. David Letterman was sort of a brilliant reporter for a second - but it was a way nobody had ever covered a story. They just presented what was inside themselves.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a journalism junkie.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fargo,' man, with so many actors playing so many great characters, and then they do another season, and it changes all over again? It's wild.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for it; I read every play in 'Theater' magazine. I saw the second acts of everything on Broadway - I had a job as a CBS usher in New York City, and on my way home every night, I'd see what shows I could get into.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.
- Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can go years without making a picture, and that's fine.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020