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“If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!”

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Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

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You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

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There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make

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“Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty five times. You know what he said when he finished? "It could be better." Think about it.”

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What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging…

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I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do…

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I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

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I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is…

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“One day, while taking a look at some vistas in Dad's stereopticon, it hit me that I was just this little girl, born in…

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Children's books are full of violence.

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Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

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There are two ways through life: the way of Nature, and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own…

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