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" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

John Rhys-Davies

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" With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. "

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" The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story. "

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" Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment. "

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" I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible. "

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" If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard. "

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" Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. "

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" If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up. "

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