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" A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair. "
Too Much
Someone
Time
" Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want. "
Want
Brand
Christmas
" Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think. "
Always
Think
Most
" Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their hair straight. And people panicked. And it was called going 'Joe,' meaning Joe College. And people would say, 'I don't know. Should I be 'Joe'? I can't decide.' "
Know
People
Meaning
" At my age, you can go either fat or gaunt. I've gone gaunt. "
Fat
You
Gone
" Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left. "
Days
Christmas
Only
" Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life' was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery - I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral. "
Parents
Life
Love
" 'Blood Feast' is my favorite of Lewis' films. When we shot 'Serial Mom,' and I showed them the infamous tongue scene, one of the female crew members said, 'I hate when a guy does that.' "
Mom
Said
Hate
" By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead. "
You
Step
Generation
" Do I like how digital films look? Sometimes, but sometimes it looks flat, and ugly. "
Ugly
Sometimes
Looks
" Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you didn't want to be. "
Thought
Young
You
" Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. "
Sex
Funny
Life
" Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence. "
Boy
Little
Influence
" For a meal out, my number one restaurant is Peter's Inn. I first went there when it was an old biker bar. Believe me, when it was Motorcycle Pete's, that was fun. I had my 30th birthday there. "
Birthday
Believe
Motorcycle
" Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time. "
Shy
Quiet
Good
" Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children. "
Children
Book
Reading
" 'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist. "
Look
Change
Laugh
" I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. "
Columbus
Fall
Day
" I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother. "
Father
Think
Work
" I always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it. "
Always
Know
Look
" I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.' "
Mother
Child
Black
" I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie. "
You
Say
First
" I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders. "
Believe
Describe
I Believe
" I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more. "
I Can
Any
More
" I'd be a bad father. I'm too self-involved. "
Bad
Father
Too
" I'd be arrested if I still smoked because I'm the one who would be changing the battery in the airplane in the lavatory to take out the smoke detector. I would've been those people they warn you against. "
Smoke
You
People
" I didn't follow anybody's advice, really. "
Advice
Really
Anybody
" I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy. "
Sell
Love
Just
" I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind. "
You
Laugh
Mind
" I don't like reality TV. I don't want to look down on people. "
Look
People
Reality
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