"I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies."

-- Doug Liman

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“Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?”

Source : "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing". www.imdb.com. 1987.
“Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.”

Source : Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
“One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy. Your parents want you to have health insurance. Your friends want you to be a good friend. But everyoneâ€™s thinking about their own problems and nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, â€˜Boy, I sure hope Sam finishes that chapter and gets one step closer to his dream of being a working writer.â€™ Nobody does that. If you want to write, it has to come from you. If you donâ€™t want to write, thatâ€™s great. Go do something else. That was a very liberating moment for me.”
“Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.”
“For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.”
“You have to concentrate on the swing.”
“All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.”
“I have not forgotten that you can see the world through pieces of coloured glass.”

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