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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character."

"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."

"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."
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"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."

"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."

"I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money."

"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."

"Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills."
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