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I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

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Shane Black
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 16
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I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.
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Directing comes closer than anything I’ve found yet to providing me with a good reason to get up in the morning that goes beyond just getting some money. Because all the money does is buy the bed. Getting out of it is the problem.
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I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.
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I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.
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I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.
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I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.
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You have to keep surprising your audience.
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Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.
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I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.
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I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.
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I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.
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The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.
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For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
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I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces together and think: this is almost the first Act of a movie, if I flesh it out a bit.
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I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.
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Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
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