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"Control your thoughts to define your life."
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"The quality of your life depends on how you take control of your time."
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"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."
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"You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you."
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"You can control one thing and that is your thoughts."
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"By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire."
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"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live."
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"All identification is for control and ownership."
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"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."
Box
"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
Work
"You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people."
People
"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
Character
"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"
Morals
"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."
Rules
"I guess it beats throwing trash for a living."
Living
"We create monsters and then we can't control them."
Control
"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."
People
"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."
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