"The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want."
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"People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie."
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"When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence."
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"I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic."
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"I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes."
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"I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is."
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"I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything."
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"All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence.""
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"I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film.""
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"If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears."
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"I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power."
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"He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more."
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"What I do, I want to do with all my being."
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"Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much."
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"I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed."
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"If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to."
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"If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching."
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"[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory."
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"Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain."
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"Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it."
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