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"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."

"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."

"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."

"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
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"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting."

"I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story."

"That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time."

"The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening."

"I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features."
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