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"I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Knowledge is intellectual art."
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"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."
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"Knowledge is life."
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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
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"You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine."
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"And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television."
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"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."
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"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."
Acting
"It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down."
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"If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen."
Life
"We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything."
Actor
"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
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"I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates."
Life
"Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily."
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"Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene."
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