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In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas…
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Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.
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Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone…
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Yes. The whole point about laughter is it’s like mercury: you can’t catch it, you can’t catch what motivates it—that’s why it’s…
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All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior,…
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Any good movie is filled with secrets.
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It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I…
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The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good…
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The unconscious is our best collaborator.
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Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay…
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There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
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The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.
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Yes. The whole point about laughter is it’s like mercury: you can’t catch it, you can’t catch what motivates it—that’s why it’s…
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure.…
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Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of…
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most…
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Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those…
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For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in…
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There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears…
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He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood…
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Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a…
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