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		We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we're recognized on all continents as the creme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook-off.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Fahrenthold
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexandra Cassavetes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				D.A. Wallach
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Winona Ryder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elayne Boosler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Affleck
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Louis Leterrier
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albert Brooks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My memory of 3D movies is Fernando Lamas in a swashbuckling movie. And I suppose it had been the fifties, in which swords came out at you, bullets came out at you, things were thrown into the auditorium, apparently. All that sort of cheap, "Oh, look at us, we've got 3D" isn't in the film.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Mckellen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edward Burns
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Dante
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My friends know I'm a really big movie buff, and I named Vivianne after a movie character. She was named after Vivianne Walker in 'Ya Ya Sisterhood.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jessie James Decker