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"The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks."
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"You can endure every hardship with hope."
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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."
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"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."
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"The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength."
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"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."
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"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."
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"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
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"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."
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"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."
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"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie."
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"The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job."
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"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that."
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"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors."
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"The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie."
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"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has."
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"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
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"You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it."
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"I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work."
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"The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks."
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