"If I am going to be drowned â€“ if I am going to be drowned â€“ if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?"

-- Stephen Crane

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“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”
“It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.”
“Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.”

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“If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.”
“I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.”
“The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.”

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“My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.”
“All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.”

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