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"Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium."
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"I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it.By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are."

"Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived."

"A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. ['A thousand times']"

"Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world."

"In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."

"The most spectacular moment of my daily life is connection with a stranger by communication."

"Heart connection brings meaning to life and spirit to body."

"I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you."

"She wrapped her fingers around his and touched his palm with her thumb. Her fingers were trembling.Park shifted in his seat and turned his back to the aisle."Okay?" she whispered.He nodded, taking a deep breath. They both stared down at their hands.Jesus."

"I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordinary. You're alone. And sometimes the pain of so much loss is written across your face. You wear it like an adornment and that causes other people to wonder about you; they can't relate to you and what you've been through, but you can relate to him in his dark state."
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"I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it."

"Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation."

"I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark."

"If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new."

"I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience."

"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."

"I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps."

"A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it."
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