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"I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures."
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"The root system supports the branches."
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"The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this."
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"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
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"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
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"Truth has no duality."
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"Too much truth is uncouth."
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"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."
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"A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely."
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"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."
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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
Acting

"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."
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"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."
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"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."
Creativity

"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."
Art

"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."
Nature

"I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life."
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"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."
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"But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood."
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