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"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has."
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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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"By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire."
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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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"I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director."
Movies
"I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work."
Work
"The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work."
Love
"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct."
Business
"I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet."
Man
"And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit."
God
"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized."
Importance
"I really, really love directing films."
Love
"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has."
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"I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say."
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