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If There's An Interesting Role That Comes Up As A Great Support Role In A Decent Picture, Then I'll Do That.

It Was Actually A Lot More Helpful To Have Calvin Hart, A Cop, As My Template. He Was Also My Technical Advisor On Shaft. This Time, I Kinda Got To Go To Jersey City With Him, And Hang Around, And Watch Him Interact With Other Cops, People In The Projects, And See What It Means To Be Him. People Call Him 'big Daddy' And He's This Larger-than-life Hero To A Lot Of People.

If You Go Into A Comic Book Store, There Are Tons Of Star Wars Stories On The Stand. There Are Lots Of Different Stories To Tell. Maybe George [lucas] Won't Tell Them. Maybe Some Kid, Who's A Star Wars Fan That's Planning To Go To Film School, Will Call Lucas And Say, 'i'd Like To Make A Star Wars Film.' Then, They'll Make One.

I'm A One-take Kind Of Guy, Except I Don't Do It In One Take.

The Only Thing I've Kind Of Missed Is Finding A Really Good Western That I Want To Do, Because I Watched Westerns A Lot.