William Friedkin Quotes

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

William Friedkin

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• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  

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• And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Week
  • Landscape
  • Realized