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"I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done."
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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
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"It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films."
Comfort
"I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done."
People
"There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly."
People
"The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones."
Business
"At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home."
Home
"My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad."
Family
"I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself."
Career
"It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want."
Money
"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."
Comfort
"I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors."
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