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Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

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Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

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I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

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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.

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I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

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I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

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I have a lot of nightmares.

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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.

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I took some time out for life.

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A lot of things just aren't true any more.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: May 9th, 1940

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