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"The filmmakers always have a great level of control."
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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."

"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."

"Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out."

"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them."

"His vision blurred, his grip on the dash faltered and the cockpit lost definition. Then all the diati rushed back to him in its own shockwave.The physical force slammed him against the cockpit half-wall. He gasped air into his lungs as a crimson aura throbbed above his skin. The world spun around him, and it occurred to him if he wanted to he could control it-not the spinning, but the world."
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"There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave."

"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."

"Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills."

"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director."

"I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden."

"You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually."
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