"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."
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"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."
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"More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world."
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"If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise."
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"I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment."
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"It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey]."
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"You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them."
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"On my very first show, my partners in it, Oprah Winfrey and her network, and studio, Warner Horizon, who doesn't get enough credit, said, "Lady, we're going to let you call the shots the way you want to.""
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"I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my imagination, and what filmmaker doesn't want to do that? I feel very fortunate to have that. I don't take it for granted."
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"I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that."
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"I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something."
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"It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage."
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"I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money"
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"It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own."
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"Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do."
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"There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man."
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"Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist."
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"I feel that others live up to me, if they want me."
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"Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver"
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"Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants."
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