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"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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"Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society."
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"It's much easier to work with an unknown."
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"Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego."
Time

"The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself."
Music

"If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off."
People

"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
Performance

"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles."
Life

"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."
People

"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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"But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented."
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