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"Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility."
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"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

"When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible."

"Anything in life is possible when you work hard to achieve it."

"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."

"Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it."

"And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view."

"Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me."

"In a Universe with infinite possibilities we don't have to have our hearts set on just one."

"There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within."
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"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."

"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."

"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."

"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."

"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."

"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world."

"For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled."
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