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"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."
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"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."


"It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope."


"My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house."


"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."


"Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day."


"I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important."


"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."


"I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent."


"That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it."


"Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk."
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