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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

Different Directing Narrative Piece
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I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.

Cameras Creating Different Effects
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The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.

About Backwards Ever Forward
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Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

Airport Beat Before Connection
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There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.

Democrat Democrats Even Hardly
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Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

Cities Cluster Democrats Republicans
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I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.

Affiliation Ask Close Convince
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I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.

Devil How Intense Know
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I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

Always Anybody Anything Enough
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I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And I started racing, and now I drive on the highways, I'm extra cautious because no one knows what they're doing half the time. You don't know what this guy is going to do or that one.

Around Because Bit Cautious
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As a student of the R.I.C.H. I have found out that there is a secret code they live by. It is never in the front end, it is always in the back end. It is in the systems they create and in the people they affect. They know that they don't win alone, they carry people along. The journey is never done alone

Student Rich Secret code Never
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I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

Any Consider Good Judge
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If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.

Actually Be True Blame Born
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

About Actually Anything Because
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I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

Away Cancer Could Cures
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I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.

Cancer Cured Die I See
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The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Any Better Fact Get
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Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

Any Anymore Every Last
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And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Destroy Going Life Like
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I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.
Even Feel I Feel Like
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But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!

Die Much Want Do
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

Actor Actor Film General
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I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.
Go Need Really Vacation
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I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

Away Call Demands Give
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If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.
Factor Get Reading Than
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
Cast I Think Like Self
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My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.

Escape I Love Job Love
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I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

Bit Developed Fine Little
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You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

Aware Back Camera Doing
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You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
Film Knowing NotKnowing Starting
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I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
Chess Know Life MyLife
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You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.

Actor Begin Better Director
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It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.

Certain Disagree Discussed Feel
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I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working.

Australia Back Because Exotic
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The problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much

Problems People World
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

People Drink Afraid Revealing themselves
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Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

About Anything Avalanche Everything
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There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

Never seems Trouble Brewing around Bar
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Sometimes Places Characters Emotions
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.
Alive Dissent Elections Hang
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The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Philosophy High minded Means Love
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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

Beautiful things Ask Attention
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When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

Bar Capital Girl Knows
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I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

Golf Like People Stand
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The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Exploit Just Poor Rich
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People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

Blowing Changes Different Go
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If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Benefits Claim Continue Extremely
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

America Black Black America Filmmakers
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Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.

American Else Everyone Get
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I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

Around Blues Control God
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