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"When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit."
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"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
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"Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare."
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"You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them."
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"Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other."
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"As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not."
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"This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books."
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"You don't need notes... you either do it ... or you either you don't do it."
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"This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good."
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"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas."
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"Action is the universal language of success."
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"You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time."
Music
"Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening."
Time
"That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time."
Dream
"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."
School
"The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening."
People
"I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features."
Nation
"So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point."
Art
"I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie."
Dream
"When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit."
Success
"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting."
Friendship
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