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"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world."
"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."
"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."
"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."
"Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world."
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
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"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."
"The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that."
"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."
"I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on."
"When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer."
"Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success."
"I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient."
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