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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.


Cameron Diaz
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I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.


Meshell Ndegeocello
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I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.


Jason Silva
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Paul Auster
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The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.
Pawel Pawlikowski
At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.'
Pete Hamill
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I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.


Elizabeth McGovern
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There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Hollandaise?' because to the best of my knowledge, it didn't exist before we did it.
Wylie Dufresne
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'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.


Ridley Scott
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel
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I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.


Rick Moody
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My son Chris said he was 12 years old before he knew what I did for a living.


Bob Elliott
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
Hallie Ephron
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I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.
Darlene Cates
This guy Simon Helberg, who's in 'Florence Foster Jenkins,' I might have been vaguely patronizing to him because he hadn't done films before. Gradually, you realize, not only is the guy a much bigger star than me, he's maybe the richest man I've ever met.
Hugh Grant
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My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
Michael Sheen
When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.
Isabella Rossellini
I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
Eli Wallach
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.


Rainbow Rowell
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Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.


Max Brooks
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