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"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."

"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."

"We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine."

"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."
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"I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me."

"I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world."

"I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?"

"We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment."

"As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception."

"I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre."
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