"Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't."
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"I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid."
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"It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career."
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"It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it."
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"[I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me."
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"My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time."
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"If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for."
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"That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do."
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"If the opportunity comes about that's right and it can be a smooth thing, yeah sure. But for the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff."
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"I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with."
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"Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they don't mind that they're obvious, their point is made."
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"I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'"
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"You learn stuff from your kids, every day."
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"I'm always constantly trying to find stuff that's different. It's a way to keep me on my toes and keep me interested and keep me excited about work."
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"As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear."
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"When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological."
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"To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots."
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"Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?"
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"I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding."
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"I love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy!"
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