I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

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I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

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You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

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I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

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A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

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I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

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I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

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