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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.


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DIRK BENEDICT In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldn't accept losing that time slot.
DIRK BENEDICT My son flipped. He loved it. He's 9 now, but he still loves reptiles. To this day, he's so proud tha...
DIRK BENEDICT Films are about emotions. They are, for the most part and certainly in today's mainstream film world...
DIRK BENEDICT As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventuall...
DIRK BENEDICT That's Hollywood. Boom! From star to forgotten actor.
DIRK BENEDICT I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests...
DIRK BENEDICT I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
DIRK BENEDICT I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifeti...
DIRK BENEDICT A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ...
DIRK BENEDICT Someday I would love to publish the hundreds of letters I've received from people around the world, ...
DIRK BENEDICT I was the final word on everything. I wrote and directed. Complete cast approval. Every piece of mus...
DIRK BENEDICT People think surviving cancer is tough, or surviving a divorce, but NOTHING compares with fighting w...
DIRK BENEDICT I have my routine. I'm running 3 or 4 miles a day.
DIRK BENEDICT I am very much a person who enjoys mornings as much as evenings.
DIRK BENEDICT I am not simply an actor, but also have written books and now directed/written a film, I have some p...
DIRK BENEDICT Cassavetes would have been pleased with me. Truffaut, too, I think.
DIRK BENEDICT Today I spend more time making music than I do writing.
DIRK BENEDICT In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could jus...
DIRK BENEDICT I ALWAYS enjoy myself. And if I didn't enjoy myself in this experience, I should be locked away for ...
DIRK BENEDICT The media destroyed the show with all the hype. All the press worked against us. We didn't become th...
DIRK BENEDICT Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and ...
DIRK BENEDICT If you have talent as a screenwriter, it will out. Nothing succeeds like perseverance. Never give up...
DIRK BENEDICT I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult,...
DIRK BENEDICT Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent t...
DIRK BENEDICT That's the network mentality. They're always chasing the polls, trying to second-guess what the peop...
DIRK BENEDICT Sadly, there are no rules by which an actor learns his craft. Would that it were that easy. I spent ...
DIRK BENEDICT There isn't a place on Earth with the amount of beautiful ladies as LA. When you're young and starri...
DIRK BENEDICT My films went to numerous film festivals. I was stunned at how shallow the films were and how much a...
DIRK BENEDICT I enjoy writing nonfiction the most because one is limited only by one's imagination. Autobiography ...
DIRK BENEDICT If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the en...
DIRK BENEDICT Hollywood... damn well won't hire a writer over 40 unless he made his mark when he was under 30. Ame...
DIRK BENEDICT I woke myself up to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pill...
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