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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. David Lynch

You Be True Everything True Ideas Dead Dictate

Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together. David Lynch

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I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool. David Lynch

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Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. David Lynch

You Car Meditation Mental Vehicle Like Within Go Transcendental Technique

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist. David Lynch

Starving Somehow Except Idea French Got Very Artist Romantic

When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself. Dee Rees

The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take. Dee Rees

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With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that. Dee Rees

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Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time. Deeyah Khan

Time Change Old Systems Take Leave Deeply

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition. Denis Villeneuve

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You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial. Derek Cianfrance

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One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes. Doug Liman

You Yourself Sometimes Face Mistakes Fall One Thing About Outside Pushing Make Comfort Comfort Zone Going Flat Your Thing Zone

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief? Ed Wood

You Do You Know Know Disbelief Heard Suspension

It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome. Edgar Wright

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Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis? Edward Zwick

Me Drama Purpose Catharsis Forgive Forgive Me

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. Eli Roth

City Vegas Never Stops Las Vegas

I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of. Eli Roth

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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. Eugene Jarecki

Education History Understanding Past Only Repeat Us Teaches

Success is really about your mindset. F. Gary Gray

Success Mindset About Success Is Really Your

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. Federico Fellini

Invented Never True Always Itself Created Ever Thing

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised. Federico Fellini

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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes. Francois Truffaut

Result Thousand Taste

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