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"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker."
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"It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better."
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."
"None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn't stop anyone from trying to make the climb."
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith."
"If you failure, do not give up. Find new strength to climb the stairway to success."
"An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible."
"Often when we are on the path to success we come across obstacles that seem to be like mountains."
"Failure is only but a temporary phenomenon."
"In every situation, may we find the grace of endurance."
"A star will shine in the midst of darkness. A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt. A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt. A diamond will form in the midst of pressure. A champion will rise in the midst of hardship."
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"Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script."
"As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial."
"I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important."
"The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made."
"A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them."
"You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked."
"You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames."
"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker."
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