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The Mafia liked the book. They come out looking good. Of course, it's a romantic novel and the Mafia is romanticized.

I think of Wall Street guys as the crookedest in the world...

I'm fascinated by the movies simply because it is an enormous machine for making money and no matter how badly they run it, it still makes money. It's the perfect industry to put your nephew in and your idiot cousin, because they'll be geniuses.

The horse's head in the producer's bed was totally my imagination. I made it up based on Sicilian folklore. In the old days, they would kill a man's favorite animal and hang it up as a warning.

I thought of it as a man's book. I have no idea why women like it, too. The book is an ironic commentary on romantic love. The whole concept of romantic love for women is very phony. They really don't want to be considered delicate vessels any more.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

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