But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.


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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
JACK VANCE
I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
JACK VANCE
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c...
JACK VANCE
But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
JACK VANCE
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u...
JACK VANCE
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning...
JACK VANCE
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
JACK VANCE
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
JACK VALENTI
Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, at...
JACK VALENTI
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched...
JACK VALENTI
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden...
JACK VALENTI
There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ...
JACK VALENTI
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
JACK VALENTI
Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
JACK VALENTI
No one today knows what is indecent.
JACK VALENTI
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
JACK STRAW
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u...
JACK STRAW
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER
I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
JACK STEINBERGER
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generatio...
JACK STEINBERGER
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio...
JACK STEINBERGER
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer...
JACK STEINBERGER
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to...
JACK STEINBERGER
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
JACK STEINBERGER
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
JACK SCHMITT
But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base ...
JACK SCHMITT
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Cany...
JACK SCHMITT
My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
JACK SCALIA
There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
JACK SCALIA
I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that ser...
JACK SCALIA
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
JACK SCALIA
You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
JACK SCALIA
But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
JACK SCALIA
Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ...
JACK SCALIA
Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
JACK SCALIA
I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent ...
JACK REYNOR
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor c...
JACK REYNOR
With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play...
JACK REYNOR