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"I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it."
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"We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions."
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"Let us help each other, to be what we ought to be."
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"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
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"I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood."
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"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."
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"No matter how giant and rich you are, if you are isolated you will fall and remain alone in this world."
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"Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge."
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"It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today."
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"Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders."
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"The real safety net of life is community, family and nature."
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"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."
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"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
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"You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people."
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"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
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"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."
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"I guess it beats throwing trash for a living."
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"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."
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"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."
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"You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd."
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"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."
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