"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
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"'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it."
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"I rehearsed it a lot underwater with a mouthpiece for Casino Royale and not freaking out, because you can't see a thing. It's like being in a really bad nightmare. I've never seen somebody drown, but I really swallowed water. It was like choreography. It was very emotional. I was crying underwater at one point."
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"It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare."
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"It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day."
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"My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare."
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"Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares."
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"I tried water polo and my horse drowned... that was a nightmare."
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"Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon."
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"History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening."
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"Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare."
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"Do you know how hard it is to kill 30 million people? It's a logistical nightmare."
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"With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist."
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"Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead, he was unable to wake her from them. Yes, that is death: Tereza asleep, having terrible nightmares, and he unable to wake her."
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