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"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."

"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."

"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."

"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."

"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."

"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."

"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."

"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."

"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful."

"Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work."

"That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them."

"Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules."

"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."

"If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me."

"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."

"Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls."
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