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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development

"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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Personal Development

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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Personal Development

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
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"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing."
Film

"How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie."
Life

"I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime."
Experience

"I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people."
People

"I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did."
People

"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."
Time

"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation."
Time

"When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it."
Business

"You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another."
Life

"My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot."
Curiosity
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