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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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"Control your thoughts to define your life."
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"The quality of your life depends on how you take control of your time."
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"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."
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"You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you."
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"You can control one thing and that is your thoughts."
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"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live."
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"All identification is for control and ownership."
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"If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better."
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"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
Illusion
"Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to."
History
"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
"We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things."
History
"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true."
Life
"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
Dying
"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
"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do."
Body
"Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult."
Writing
"For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors."
Work
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