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I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. Tom Hooper

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My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. Tom Hooper

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The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. Tom Hooper

You Touching More End Up Truths Bigger Specific Universal

'The Room' is relationships. The room is you and me and everyone in America. That's basically what 'The Room' is. Tommy Wiseau

Me You Relationships Everyone America Room Basically

I like vampires. Tommy Wiseau

Vampires Like

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen. Vincente Minnelli

Drawn Seem Happen Actually Things

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death. Walter Reisch

Death Hate Those Little Sleep

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. Werner Herzog

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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. Werner Herzog

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I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity. Werner Herzog

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All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum. Wes Craven

Insane Asylum Doing Curtains Rearranging

Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures. Whit Stillman

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I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody. William Friedkin

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