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Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

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Come, Visual, Terms, Essential

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

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Motorcycle, Never, You, Policeman

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

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Politics, Everybody, Fairly, Dose

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

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Mexican, Made, Although, Walker

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

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Pink, Cowboy, Everyone Else, Justin

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

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Law, Prime, Minister, Chap

It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

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Always, Show, Up, Eccentric

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

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New, Projects, Which, Same Stuff

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

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Through, Some, Over, Kitchen

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

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Big, Stories, Angeles, Corporations

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

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Find, Particularly, Did, Studies

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

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Play, Spanish, Based, Thomas

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

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King, Play, Crime, Shakespeare

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

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Conservative, Very, Writings, Shakespeare

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

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Negative, Career, Doing, Universal

The life of a repo man is always intense.

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Life, Man, Always, Intense

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

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Actor, Always, Directors, They Say

And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.

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Level, Abroad, Allowed, Provoke

Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist.

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Goes, Very, Based, Protagonist

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

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Death, Film, Well, Compass

I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

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Love, Film, Another, Mexico

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

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Happy, Another, Japan, Mexico

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

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Politics, Yes, Within, Curse

So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

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Beginning, Been, Very, Getting Better

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

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Future, Always, Movies

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