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"I just enjoy collaborating. I think there is always something to be learned, and I think that one could never collaborate enough - that would be impossible. So I am always excited and honored when someone wants to work with me."
"I feel like I'm trying to speak in a very loving way or a very nonspecific way. I really just want to talk about peace and love and equality. The fact that anybody couldn't get behind equality or love - those are things that are their problem."
"No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show."
"I really want to try to explore the characters from angles you've never seen and keep them classic and iconic."
"If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life."
"Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are."
"It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know."
"If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar."
"You start playing when it's cold and you want to be playing when it's cold again."
"I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better."
"I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing."
"I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them to be judged for what they are and analyzed, accepted, criticized, whatever you want to call it, on their own terms, not as part of some mall-cop genre."
"Listen, you listen to the work and you decide whether you want to support it. But don't ask me why I'm doing it, because I really do not know the answer."
"You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get."
"It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?""
"Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician."
"I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that."
"If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world."
"If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home."
"If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do."
