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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it."

"I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience."

"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste."

"If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new."

"Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique."

"I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities."

"The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face."

"In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me."

"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then."
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