"We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices."
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"[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day."
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"We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth."
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"There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope."
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"You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist."
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"The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants."
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"I read in self-defense."
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"As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?"
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"Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions..."
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"I've had bad luck in my two previous marriages. The first wife left me, and the second did not. "
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"I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality."
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"There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you."
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"When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York."
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"Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you."
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"Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one"
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"I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own."
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"If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right."
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"Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves."
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"The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other."
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"No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game."
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