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"I did not have a reputation to defend."
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"As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that."

"Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude."

"Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything."

"You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up."

"The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. After September 11th, 2001, those were just words on an old piece of paper, no longer a restriction of the Government's overreaching power to shake down its subjects."

"If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears."

"I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test."

"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
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"If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children."


"I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line."


"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."


"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."


"You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity."
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