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" I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories. "

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" My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around. "

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" I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react. "

" I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me. "

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" I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy. "

" At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities. "

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" Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house. "

" Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. "

" Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not. "

" When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element. "

" I'm definitely not a nerd. "

" I would love a robot butler. "

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" I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself. "

" People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office. "