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"I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted."
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"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."

"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."

"The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things."

"Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference."

"Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability."
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"In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this."

"I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live."

"These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable."

"In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative."

"In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously."

"I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are."

"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them."

"Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car."
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