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"I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."

"At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second."

"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."

"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."

"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."

"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."

"Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention."
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"I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall."

"Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!"

"Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want."

"Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years."

"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."

"It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself."

"With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from."

"You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie."
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