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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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"How well you cross a storm of life determines your testimony about it."
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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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"Calm skies don't make skillful eagles."
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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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"Stand tall like a tower of God."
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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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"Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling."
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"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
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"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized."
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"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like."
Life

"One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen."
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"I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say."
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"So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies."
Movies

"I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet."
Man

"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."
Work

"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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"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct."
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