"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
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"Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'"
"Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market."
"Smile if you want a smile from another face."
"Don't say maybe if you want to say no."
"The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do."
"We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head."
"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it."
"Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true."
"I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana"
"If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death."
"I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is."
"I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did."
"What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life."
"When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself."
"I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie."
"I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy."
"I wouldn't want to play LSU right now even if I were the Indianapolis Colts."
"I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride."
"Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way."