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"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."
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"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"

"Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset."

"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

"Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options."
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"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."


"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."


"I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people."


"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."


"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."


"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."


"I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form."


"I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures."
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