Jay Samit Quotes
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future.
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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.
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Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.
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I always say the more problems you have, the more opportunities you have.
