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"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,
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"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."

"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
May,

"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"

"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."

"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
May,

"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
May,
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"In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me."

"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy."

"Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation."

"The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face."

"On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable."

"A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it."
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