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"I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student."
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"The present offers fresh opportunities."
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"God gives absolutely everybody the opportunity to be successful in life."
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"Don't wait for opportunity in front of a closed door-wander until you find the open one."
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"We're constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity."
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"If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble's apparel, do not scorn it."
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"Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!"
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"Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs."
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"Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors."
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"When you have the right intention, the right opportunity will open the door."
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"It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?"
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"I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting."
Life
"There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen."
Change
"Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life."
Life
"I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country."
Family
"There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control."
Family
"I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man."
Philosophy
"It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come."
Time
"Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile."
Life
"To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film."
Life
"I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student."
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