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"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
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"We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I'm watching a horror movie, there's a pattern, a sense of control in them. I'm just an observer, not having to deal with any of the repercussions. It's a nice dream to think monsters play by the rules, that they've got a pattern you can unlock and follow. Real life's messy, and the chaos leaves you devastated in the wake."

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one."

"They (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? And so each of them loses himself for the sake of the other person, and loses the other, and many others who still wanted to come."

"At chaos' core lies the invitation."

"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."
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"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."

"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."

"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."

"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."

"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."

"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
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