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"I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."

"When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with."

"Employment should not be your permanent assignment."
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"But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live."

"Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different."

"It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money."

"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple."

"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something."

"But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence."

"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."

"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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