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"When people say "What do you want people to get from this movie?" I say, "Well, it depends on what they bring to it." I don't try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don't do a part for those kinds of reasons."
"We all want to experience more happiness, fulfillment, and peace."
"I let my music take me where my heart wants to go."
"It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight."
"Please, sir, I want some more."
"I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films."
"Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone."
"The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes."
"I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few."
""Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed.""
"I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name."
"Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something."
"Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note."
"In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done."
"And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them."
"If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit."
"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."
"Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right."
"No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO."
"Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated."
