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"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."
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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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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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 bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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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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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles."
Boys

"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
Hollywood

"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
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"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
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"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck

"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
Trouble

"Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich."
Society

"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
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"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
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"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
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