"The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy."
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"I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence."
"It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all."
"It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction."
"Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things."
"The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance."
"I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours."
"There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping."
"But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened."
"It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert."
"I've always been open to doing reality again. Just under certain circumstances."
"Funny how certain things stay with you."
"At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down."
"On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point."
"Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events."
"I bring to my life a certain amount of mess."
"What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?"
"in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy."
"We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone."
"The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying."