“I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.”
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“It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day.”
“By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie ideas never seem to ask why any employer would hire someone at $8.23 if that person's services are only valued in the marketplace at, say, $5.00.”
“We hear a lot about theological justifications for the conflicts, but very little about the scientific evidence, which in no way supports them. The time period in which Moses was leading his people out of Egypt, into the Promised Land, the Promised Land was Egypt. We know that. Archaeological records are very clear. The Egyptians were avid bureaucrats even in those days and kept very scrupulous records. I think it's important for us to realize this conflict is built on a legend. It has no scientific support.”
“There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.”
“You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.”
“If we're talking about Sinai, we can't understand it without the 1967 and 1973 wars, and you can't understand it without the biblical story of Moses leading his people through the wilderness. These are essential elements in the modern conversation about what's going on in the Middle East that seem to have been lost.”
“Coolness is temporary. You can't capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people that are in a place, not with monuments or institutions. It's a momentary conjunction of personalities.”
“I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.”
“When you look at the science and the genetic studies that have been done on Palestinians and Jews, you find that there is a unity. They're both descended from the Canaanites. They're essentially the same people.”
“Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.”
“Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.”
“For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.”
“I spoil a lot of people with my play.”
“I like being around people.”
“We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.”
“There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.”
“When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.”
“That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.”
“The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.”