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I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.
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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
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I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
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Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
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Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
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I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.
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When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'
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I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.
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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
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Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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