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" Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates. "

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" Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time. "

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" There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today. "

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" When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.' "

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" Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both. "

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" But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. "

" I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. "