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I Think I Did Have A Reputation For Being Grumpy. I Don't Think I'm Grumpy. I Have Opinions. I Have An Independent Vision. I Am A Purposeful Person. But On A Daily Basis, I Think I'm Other Than Grumpy. I Think It Is A Case Where I Am Coming To Do Business And Not There Just To Be Flattered And Cajoled And Used.

I Am My Age. I'm Not Making Any Effort To Change It.

I've Always Been Somewhere Down From The Top, So I've Never Had To Suffer Being Knocked Off The Top.

What I Found Was An Emotional Consistency With Him. The Words, The Scenes, The Situations - I Wasn't Mimicking What I Thought Branch Rickey's Emotional Reality Would Have Been.

The Capacity To Create [visual] Effects In The Computer Has Made The Job Easier, But It Has Also Introduced The Complexity That You Can With A Few More Keystrokes Generate Such A Busy Canvas That The Eye Doesn't Know Where To Go. You Lose Human Scale On An Event And You're Just Wowed By The Kinetics And The Visualization. But, Often In Those Cases I Feel You Lose Touch With The Human Characters And What It Is That They Would Feel And How They Might Feel, And That's Still The Most Important Part.