"I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation."
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"The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours."
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"It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow."
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"I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material."
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"When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them."
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"Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely."
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"...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure."
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"If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you"
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"You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?"
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"So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya."
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"I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words."
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"Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system."
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"I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life."
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"Coaches try to beat each other from the ears up."
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"We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not."
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"You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else."
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"Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation."
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"One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second Lord of the Rings film and having Gandalf in it. Why? He died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell 1000 more seats? It's daft."
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"My scripts are always heavily noted. If I can take a director to one side and say, "Do you mind if we try this?," a few days before, that's usually a better way of doing it then on the day."
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"The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it."
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