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"When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love."

"How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?"

"So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone."

"Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water."

"Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let us stop it by being kind and forgiving like water."
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"People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk."

"I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills."

"Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money."

"What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you."

"So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling."

"People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors."

"How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand."

"I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies."
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