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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"
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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."
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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."
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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times."
Faith
"The truth will only be told over a career."
Truth
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
Film
"Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size."
Storytelling
"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
Age
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
Film
"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
Trouble
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
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