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"We are the mountains we must cross."
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"It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."
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Personal Development
"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."
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Personal Development
"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."
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Personal Development
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!"
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"It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won."
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"If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it."
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"Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him."
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"The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so."
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"I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original."
Old
"Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions."
Emotional
"I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize."
People
"If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all."
Actor
"So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference."
Creativity
"I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love."
Love
"Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff."
Instinct
"The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use."
Creativity
"What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches."
Creativity
"The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche."
Challenge
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