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"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director."
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"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."
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"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
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"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."
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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
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"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."
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"Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life."
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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
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"Become great by converting your time into quality product."
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"The quality of life depends on the power of love."
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"Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills."
People
"I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me."
Film
"Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language."
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"I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life."
Life
"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director."
Quality
"I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden."
Time
"Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker."
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"You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually."
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"'m a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them."
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"I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry."
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