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Robert Zemeckis
Motion Picture Production
If you allow it, you don't have to do anything for yourself. You know, if you get sick, they get you a doctor. If you need food, they will give it. If you need to get somewhere, they'll get you a car. If you need clothes, you know, they'll go buy you a pair of underwear. So, it's like the irony about that is that because of the complexity of doing the work -- and it's not done to subvert people, it's done because there's huge responsibilities and amounts of money that are involved -- but the irony is that, by nature of the job, you can be cut off from what it is that you need to do the job. I mean, how can you be a movie director if you never fly on a commercial aircraft, or if you never go into a grocery store, or if you never go into a supermarket, or if you never go to a car wash? I mean, how do you make a movie? I mean, if you're not careful, it can be very diabolical.
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Robert Zemeckis
Motion Picture Production
Nothing's been harder on my marriage than this career. I mean, it's really, really hard. And what's interesting -- and it came to me this way -- I had a friend of mine that said, "We're sick of hearing that you're working. We all work." You know? Because, "Oh, Bob's working!" You know? But it's like, "Yeah, I'm making a 50 million dollar movie. I'm working." To me, that's going to be this intensive period of time. But then, you know, I realized everybody's working. And, it's like, "Yeah, well, we're tired of the fact that you can't have dinner with us because you're working. I mean, I work too." And another thing that happened to me once was from being defensive about it, too. I was putting my son to bed one night, and he said, "Dad, why do you work so much?" And I said, "I don't work that much." And I realized, "Jesus, what am I saying? He has no agenda. If he's saying that, obviously I've got to look at this."
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