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"Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control."
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"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."
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"Stability, insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this."
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"Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!"
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"Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change."
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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."
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"Avoid letting outside influences have a chance to affect your thoughts."
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"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."
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"Nothing happens in life that you are unable to manage satisfactorily."
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"But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder."
Money
"If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster."
Work
"I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me."
Being
"The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting."
Film
"You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally."
Art
"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
Illusion
"I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat."
Time
"I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game."
Thought
"Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control."
Control
"Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet."
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