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"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

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"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."

"I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it."

"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."

"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."

"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."

"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."

"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."

"The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college."
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