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"Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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"And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made."
Work
"I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites."
People
"Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian."
Being
"It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s."
Film
"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."
Old
"One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama."
Drama
"If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself."
People
"It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue."
Actor
"Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it."
Irish
"But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it."
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