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"I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films."
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"I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to."
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"His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence."
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"It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us."
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"I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration."
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"I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy."
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"On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper."
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"Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives."
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"I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance."
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"Off Fuck off... the same story over and over and again and again.. I don't want it!"
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"Otis! Will you PLEASE stop killing me!"
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"That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction."
Attention
"The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing."
People
"That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'"
Time
"I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films."
Frustration
"I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write."
Duty
"I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it."
Experience
"I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface."
Love
"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."
Work
"I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it."
Family
"I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'"
Experience
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