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"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."
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"Business is the salt of life."
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"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."
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"Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve."
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"Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn't even know they had."
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."
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"Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds."
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"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
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"This marriage is no one's business but our own."
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"If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way."
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"For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising."
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"To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally."
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"I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films."
Fun
"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
Difficulty
"Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring."
Sex
"Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street."
Policy
"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
Movies
"I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out."
Time
"Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will."
Movies
"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."
Hobbies
"I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it."
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