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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
