"I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it."

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"I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

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"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

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"With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext."

Wonder

"Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for."

Film

"We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence."

Sex

"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him."

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"There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen."

Science

"My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place."

Creativity

"We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient."

Work

"If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career."

Movies

"We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world."

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"With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it."

Expectation