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"Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

"The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them."

"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"

"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."

"Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."

"There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it."

"It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity."

"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."
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"He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life."


"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story."


"What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story."


"In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on."


"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."


"It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter."


"I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet."


"Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart."
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