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Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors. Robert Benton

Love You Age Getting Older Nothing Older Relationships About Mystery Colors Primary Reach Getting Certain Certain Age Twilight

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. Robert Evans

Attitude Parenting Anxiety Entitlement Parent Understand Up Shows

The beauty of a Tarantino film is that the visuals match the rhythm of the words. That's his goal. And that's my goal. Robert Richardson

Words Beauty Visuals Match His Goal Tarantino Rhythm Film

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. Robert Rodriguez

Work People Live Austin

Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even their lives: Watergate: Confidential sources. The Pentagon Papers: Confidential sources. Enron: Confidential sources. Rod Lurie

Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle tend not to romanticize it and tend not to take it flippantly. Rod Lurie

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The ability of the press to print their stories without the government trying to get them to betray their sources is as essential to a free press as the ink it is printed with. Otherwise, who will hold accountable those who hold power over us? Rod Lurie

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I do think observing is important in learning. Roger Deakins

Learning Important Think Observing

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you. Rohit Shetty

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring. Roman Polanski

Love You Incredibly Assure Boring Normal Interesting

You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype. Ryan Coogler

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The little I know I owe to my ignorance. Sacha Guitry

Ignorance Know Owe Little

I think that the secular work environment in general is a place that's challenging for Christians to thrive in without getting caught up in materialism or in competitiveness or in things that are really not important. Scott Derrickson

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I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label. Spike Jonze

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A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences. Spike Lee

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Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind. Spike Lee

Films Known Got Making Endeavors Hardest Humankind

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. Spike Lee

Love Tell Directors Motivation Wanted Story Storytellers

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. Spike Lee

Dreams Parents Has-Been More Observation Been Than Anybody

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there. Spike Lee

You Stuff Lot Times Get Intend Movies Your Credit

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys. Stan Brakhage

You People Out No-One Get Just Monkeys

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble. Stanley Kubrick

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Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. Stanley Kubrick

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