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"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are."
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"I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake."
Mistake
"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down."
Sex
"I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues."
Friendship
"Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper."
Family
"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."
Contradiction
"I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it."
Poetry
"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."
Actor
"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."
Poet
"I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being."
Nature
"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are."
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"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability."
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"The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe."
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"You already have the most important tool which is work."
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"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."
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"Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face."
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"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."
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"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
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"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."
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"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
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"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."
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