“When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.”
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You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
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We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
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