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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."

"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."

"In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody."
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"Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end."


"I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that."


"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."


"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story."


"In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on."


"Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it."
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