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"How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons."
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"Setting our living standards and expectations based on the status of others is like wishing that apples were onions."

". . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves."

"Just because someone throws their success in your face doesn't mean you have to let it get in your eyes."

"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."

"Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school."

"If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us."

"Drop comparison and you are free. Don't compare, don't compete, just be yourself."

"Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage."

"Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then."
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"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."


"Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy."


"You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin."


"I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance."


"I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right."


"I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person."


"I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen."
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