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Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new. Brian Grazer

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I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability. Brian Grazer

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I like challenges; I like excitement. I like entering different worlds and trying to succeed - not excel, but succeed. Brian Grazer

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You can get good at finding access in the entertainment business. But the ideas, the narratives themselves, they are the only things that are going to be of any value. Brian Grazer

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Where do I get the confidence to be different? A lot of it comes from curiosity. I spent years as a young man trying to understand the business I'm in. I have spent decades staying connected to how the rest of the world works. Brian Grazer

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading. Brian Grazer

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Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.' Brian Grazer

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I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet. Brian Grazer

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I don't keep a list of people I want to talk to. It's organic. But I'd like to interview Tom Brady. Someday I'd love to meet Vladimir Putin. I'd ask him how he sees the landscape of the world, what could make it better, how that could be done. Brian Grazer

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I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally. Brian Grazer

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In Hollywood, people tend to have the same sensibilities, the same taste and values, and I didn't want to spend my life that way. I wanted to have a bigger, more interesting life. Brian Grazer

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Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do. Brian Grazer

I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I like running into that in life. I like extreme points of view, a level of commitment - and I certainly love mastery. Brian Grazer

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I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school. Brian Grazer

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It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show. Bruce Nash

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I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea. Bruce Nash

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Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing. Bruce Paltrow

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Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost. Bruce Paltrow

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I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.' Bryan Cogman

I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward. Bryan Cogman

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer. Bryan Cogman

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