"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."

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"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."

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"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."

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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."

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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

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"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

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"Some people - and a high percentage of submissives - wanted clear-cut rules. Preferred their duties laid out, like schedules and lists."

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"I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out."

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"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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"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."

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"I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable."

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"Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there."

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"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."

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"People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint."

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"It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me."

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"Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character."

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"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."

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