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"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."
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"Failure is your inability to recognize that you have made the same mistakes again. Making a mistake is normal, it turns abnormal when it's not recognized!"

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

"Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options."

"Fail big. Fail better.Try again. Without looking for a shelter."

"Failure could bring the best opportunity to start the most wonderful life."

"Failure generates its own majesty. Defeat becomes a panoptic stain on the soul; it creates its own all-embracing pathos. Reverses engulf us in fleshy feelings of self-pity, sorrow, and apathy. Resounding setbacks might even be subtlety attractive because it means we can give up trying. It is tempting to accept defeat, surrender to our insecurities, and admit that because of failing to accomplish one particular goal that the best part of our life was wasted. Cynically writing ourselves off as a failure, we are free to capitulate to the emptiness of our lives."
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"Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field."


"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie."


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


"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."


"By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do."


"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."
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