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I think it's amazing how lucky we are to be in our profession and have movies to remember people with.

Ooh, ooh, to remember people with.

I think the films of Hal Ashby have had an enormous effect on most of the great filmmakers that we admire.

The winner is Hal Ashby.

10 or 11 features, 7 in the 70s that are just an astonishing string of masterpieces. I want to thank Hal Ashby? Ten or eleven features, seven in the 70s that are just an astonishing string of masterpieces.

I want to thank Hal Ashby for your courage.

True.

Hal Ashby was obsessed with film.

It smoked some punch, and he would work all night.

It's still a little astonishing to me why he hasn't had his do.

That's all we have is filmmakers are our instincts.

There's nothing else. In other words, what I feel about something.

The only thing I know.

The film will tell you what to do. If you think about any of Hal Ashby's Hold on my friend And it don't matter

If you think about any of Hal Ashby's films

You're going to find discussion of class

You're going to find discussion of race

He was so sensitive

Of what's right, what's wrong

He fought for us

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