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"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times."
Faith
"The truth will only be told over a career."
Truth
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
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"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
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"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
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"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
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"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
"I want to make a film about a factory worker."
Film
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