"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

Lewis Carroll, English Author

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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"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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"Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days."

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"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."

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"In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form."

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"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."

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"It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy."

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"I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker."

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

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"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."

"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."

"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

"One of the things I love about cinema is the range."

"Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days."

"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."

"In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form."

"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."

"It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy."

"I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker."