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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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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The world will need a Hero, and it might as well be you.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.
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Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.
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I'll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
