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"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie."
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"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."

"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."

"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years."

"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."

"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."

"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."

"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."

"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."

"It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that."
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"In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film."

"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"

"It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience."

"The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind."

"So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time."

"I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head."
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