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'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

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• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

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• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

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• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

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• Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

  

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• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

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• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

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• Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

  

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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

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• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

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• I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.

  

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• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

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• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

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• Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

  

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

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• Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

  

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• I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.

  

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• You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.

  

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• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

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• Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

  

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• 'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.

  

  Oren Peli
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