It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

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Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

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People always said, "I can't believe you made a movie that had no script." Yeah, but here's the thing, if you've got actors who are used to that, and that's what they like to do, they're all good improvisers and they're all people that feel comfortable doing that, then you know, it's not that big of a deal. It's what you do.

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If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

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The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

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With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

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The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the... by Rob Reiner

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

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My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing.

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I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out th... by Rob Reiner

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

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You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or... by Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

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For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance... by Rob Reiner

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

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Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what you've gone through, trying to figure out a way to make it into something that's artistic that people can connect with.

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I guess as I get older, I'm kind of getting drawn to the things that I really love the most, which is trying to figure out ways of blending politics with humor, and making it interesting. So I don't know if anybody's interested in this stuff, but I like it, so I get involved with it.

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I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one o... by Rob Reiner

I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.

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Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

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I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.

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Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing shtick.

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Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare c... by Rob Reiner

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

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Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.

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Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

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I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

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