You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.
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I think in every generation there's a certain amount of, not awe exactly, but that sort of awareness of other people's achievements.Alan Bates
Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.
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People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.
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I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.
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No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.
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