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"I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting."
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"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself."

"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"

"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."

"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."

"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."

"All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly."

"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."


"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."


"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."


"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."
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