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"With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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"Expectations create and shape reality."
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Personal Development

"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"
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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."
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"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
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"If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career."
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"We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient."
Work

"I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it."
Time

"We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence."
Sex

"With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext."
Wonder

"We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world."
Creativity

"With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it."
Expectation

"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him."
Hollywood

"I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything."
Writing

"Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for."
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