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"If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment."
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."


"It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia."


"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."


"You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing."


"I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed."


"It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money."


"I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media."


"You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them."


"My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom."


"American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information."
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