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Everything in life turns out ...

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

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It's all through the actors; ...

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

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Rather than live on in the he...

Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.

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I don't wanna live on in my w...

I don't wanna live on in my work. I wanna live on in my apartment.

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The process of making films i...

The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing.

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When a film is reviled, you o...

When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.

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When I started out, I was a t...

When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.

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Because it's much more pleasa...

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

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With films, I just scribble a...

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have your notes for the scene, which are written with the actors and the camera in mind. The actual script is a necessity for casting and budgeting, but the end product often doesn't bear much resemblance to the script--at least in my case.

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Manute Bol is so skinny they ...

Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.

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I was thrown out of NYU for c...

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

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In real life, Keaton believes...

In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.

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I don't want to live forever ...

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

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Don't you see the rest of the...

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

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When you start putting a high...

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

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It's hard for me to know. I'l...

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

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That’s one of the nice things...

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

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No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read...

No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.

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Isn't all mankind ultimately ...

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

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I, interestingly, had dated a...

I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do toher what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.

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