You Quotes
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.
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Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.
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You can stroke people with words.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.
