"Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life."

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"I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me."

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"I've always been able to survive by writing, though."

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"There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave."

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"Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language."

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"Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

"A witty saying proves nothing."

"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

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"I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life."

"I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me."

"I've always been able to survive by writing, though."

"There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave."

"'m a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them."

"Most artists think they're frauds anyway."

"Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way."

"I've always had trouble with authority."

"Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language."

"Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too."