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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that…
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Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on…
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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then…
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You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range…
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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
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I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole…
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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
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I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.
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The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that…
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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most…
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are…
— Jane Austen
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to…
— Teresa of Avila
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
— Saul Bellow
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
— Josh Billings
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of…
— Tony Campolo
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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent…
— Jimmy Carter
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Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
— Richard S. Salant
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must…
— Unknown Author
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