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"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."
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"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."
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"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
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"The truth will only be told over a career."
Truth
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
Film
"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
Trouble
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
"I want to make a film about a factory worker."
Film
"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."
Success
"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
Psychology
"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
Hollywood
"Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it."
Talent
"I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles."
Boys
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