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"I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars."
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"Every man dies. Not every man lives."
Man
"Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision."
Vision
"I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about."
Acting
"When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous."
Power
"It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry."
Nature
"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."
Art
"I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view."
Movies
"I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large."
Society
"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."
Time
"I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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