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"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Knowledge is intellectual art."
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"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"Knowledge is life."
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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
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"Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition."
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"Betrayal... is my favorite subject."
Betrayal
"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."
Film
"I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters."
People
"When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it."
Work
"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
Experience
"I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler."
Opportunity
"And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."
Film
"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."
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"I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?"
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