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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."
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"And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous."

"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore."

"I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way."

"Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists."

"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."

"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."

"Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening."

"The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening."
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