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" A lot of things just aren't true any more. "
More
Lot
Just
" Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie. "
Great Things
Doing
Great
" I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me. "
Push
Me
Hard
" I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally. "
Could
Never
Always
" I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person. "
You
Best
Community
" I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase. "
Time
Ideas
Think
" If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing. "
Great
Rare
You
" I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy. "
Decency
Hated
Sexy
" I have a lot of nightmares. "
Nightmares
Lot
" I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true. "
Rule
Time
True
" I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing. "
Every Day
Day
Funny
" I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy. "
Think
Comedy
Idea
" I'm big on research. "
Big
Research
" 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. "
You
Audience
Try
" I took some time out for life. "
Life
Took
Time
" It's craziness to see yourself as damaged goods, so I was the goofy kid who'd stop a strange adult and say, 'Do you know how to get to Palm Avenue?' They'd say no, and I'd say, 'You go two blocks and turn right. You can't miss it.' "
Stop
Strange
You
" I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny. "
Who
Value
Comedy
" 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. "
Done
Finish
Open
" I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable. "
Idea
Think
Year
" Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie! "
Great
Fresh
Appreciation
" Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is. "
You
Things
Growing Up
" Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy. "
Doing
Media
Picture
" Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so. "
Very
Get
Movie
" Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene. "
Up
Scene
Tone
" 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. "
Happen
You
Own
" You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world. "
Become
Serve
You
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