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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."

"Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world."

"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."

"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
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"I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty."

"They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'"

"I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis."

"I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring."

"I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world."
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