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"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
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"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."
Home
"Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say."
Want
"We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price."
Movies
"I guess it beats throwing trash for a living."
Living
"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."
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"The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere."
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"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."
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"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them."
People
"When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do."
Want
"People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectations create and shape reality."
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"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."
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"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
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"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
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"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."
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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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"The problem with many people is that they would plant a pear tree and expect it to bear some mango fruit."
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