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I think my favorite two words are 'true blue.' I think those words are really important, and the spirit of them has been lost.

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My family was entirely political, all the time, on the left. The opposite of that is not to be political on the right. It's trying not to be - politics is not everything. There's life other than politics. Politics intrudes.

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At the New York Harvard Club, they've moved the memorial for those who died in World Wars I and II up to an obscure little hallway; they used to be in the main hall, in the most prominent location. The sacrifice of those young people I always found so stunning and so admirable.

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There's something really admirable about French culture and an attraction in how independent it is from our own. So, it's odd that in other countries that are very American-influenced - who seem to care more about the Oscars than anyone here does - there's both anti-Americanism and also too much America.

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It's intimidating for guys to hear women complain about their boyfriends. Guys imagine that girls are thrilled to have them around, and this is what they really talk about.

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Paris is the destination for brokenhearted American women. I think men go there and have their hearts broken, but women come there with their hearts broken.

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With all my films, the pace is not very fast, and so people get bored with them and comment that they're just people talking in rooms and all that.

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I've gotten to really, really like being back in the States. It's so easy being in your own country, and I really like Americans - typical American towns and provincial college towns are my ideal place to be.

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I feel that if you want to make films, you have to be willing to make it without a fee. You get a deferment, I guess.

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My friends in Paris are writers, or something like that, whereas my friends in New York are doing cool stuff in finance and living very different lives. In writing, it's pretty solitary, so it doesn't really matter who's around.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 25th, 1952

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