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" High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry. "

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" If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much. "

" I'm a Star Wars fanatic. "

" You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to. "

" I used to be very much Jekyll-and-Hyde, where the Jekyll in me would say, 'Keep to the budget, be responsible,' and Hyde would be like ,'Ah, we can do an extra shot or an extra day.' "

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" I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices. "

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" I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny. "

" When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right. "

" I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on. "

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" My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making. "

" Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa. "

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" I was inspired by all of it. 'The Avengers,' 'Harry Palmer,' 'The Prisoner,' 'The Man from UNCLE,' 'In Like Flint.' Of course, there's a huge shadow of Bond - Bond is the monolith of spy movies - but it's not just about Bond; there were a lot of other things that influenced me. "

" You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters. "

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