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" I am not a visual innovator. "
Sydney Pollack
I Am
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" There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways. "
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" There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money. "
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" Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. "
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" I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else. "
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