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" A lot of times I'll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like to make movies about human beings that live on Earth. "
Like
Live
Movies
" As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground. "
Start
Said
Me
" Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. "
Yourself
Ripple
Change
" Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood. "
Jail
Single
Person
" I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor. "
Los Angeles
Company
My Own
" I act once in awhile if something comes up that seems fun. I like to do it - it's a lot of fun because there's no responsibility. You let other people have the headaches. The director has all of the headaches. "
You
Fun
Like
" I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books. "
Love
King
Writing
" I'd never ask an actor to do something I couldn't do - not that I'm the best actor in the world - but if I can do it, then I know that anyone I hire can do these things. "
Actor
Best
I Can
" I don't think anybody's all good or all bad. "
Think
Anybody
Bad
" I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that. "
Trying
You
Think
" If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get. "
Him
Foolish
Actor
" If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself. "
Creative
Try
You
" If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else. "
Else
Chances
Someone
" I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever. "
Know
Reality
Parents
" I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. "
Life
Writing
Way
" I love it when people come up to me and they say a line. Like, you know, 'My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.' "
Know
People
Father
" I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out of it, and not just, 'Oh, I've got to take my kid to the movie because they want to see the next, you know, 'Hannah Montana' movie or whatever.' "
Together
Movies
Love
" I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 times. He said: 'Every time I watch it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.' "
Remember
Me
Laugh
" I saw 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' I liked it. I saw 'The Fault in Our Stars,' and I could see why young girls like it. But it dropped off like crazy in the second weekend. I liked 'Fed Up' - I love documentaries. I go to a lot of documentaries. "
Hotel
Stars
Love
" I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu. "
Never
Think
I Think
" I think Jews are the smartest people in the world. "
Think
People
Smartest
" It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction. "
Direction
Forward
Process
" It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced. "
Live
Story
Find
" I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.' "
Princess
Movies
Bride
" Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time. "
Martin Scorsese
Great
Time
" People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities. "
Still
Human
Ignorant
" Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life. "
Loving
Life
Love
" The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, like, this fake rubber rat that he kind of, you know, shook at me. You know, and I said, 'No, this is a cliche - this can't be. Stephen King is trying to scare me with a fake rat?' It was just really weird. "
Hands
King
Me
" The marketing costs are insane now. So even if you've got a picture like 'Flipped' which cost under $14 million, or $13.5 million, you're still going to spend on an national basis, if you release with a good national release, you're still going to spend, you know, $30-$40 million. "
You
Picture
Marketing
" The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about. "
You
Care
Good
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