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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."

"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."

"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."

"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."

"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."

"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."

"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking."

"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."
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"In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places."

"I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen."

"I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels."

"What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance."

"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."

"I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession."
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