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"Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation."
"From the very beginning of my life, people have always enjoyed it when I was around for a couple of days at a time. So, I think, most people in touring bands are best in small doses. That's why we turn up in a town, play and then we leave before anyone can get sick of us."
"I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke."
"One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office."
"There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush."
"Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by."
"I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this wall." If you have to bounce off the wall, do it by yourself. Don't feature the technique. My old drama coach used to say, "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing."
"Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people."
"I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them."
"Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy."
"The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler."
"If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk."
"There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a history of incredible suffering. This is what we call the transmission of family sin, in which these unconscious patterns get carried on for generations in a legacy of pain. When they are not brought to awareness and worked through, each generation just automatically enacts them."
"Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry."
"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."
"I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels."
"Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them."
"People do too much. They say too much."
"Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious."
"In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much."
