You want to keep it fresh and you hopefully can keep doing new stuff that's going to continue to stimulate and keep people interested.
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When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.Joel Coen
Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.
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People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.
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I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.
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