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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Jean Cocteau

Death Day Me Walk Birth Hurrying Toward Since Without Began Walking

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. Jean Cocteau

Man Living Must Artist

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. John Huston

Crime Endeavor Only Left-Handed Human Form After

The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing. John Lasseter

Good You Doing The Right Thing Sometimes Greed Believe Other Right Thing Bad Bad Guys Guys Call Understand Greatest Always Coming Doing Where The Right Thing Center Reasons Right Thing

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are. John Singleton

People Passion See Trite Make Got How Them Who Lives

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left. John Waters

Christmas Shopping Worried Only Days Left July Being Rabid Sucker

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob. John Waters

Mind Snob Reason

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life. Jonas Mekas

Life Angry You Walk Beauty Those See Poetry Remain Through Colors Support Smells Cannot Meadow Breathe Full Flowers

Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy. Lee Tamahori

Character You Be Original Will Rest Be True Seen Easy Given Never True Come Another Always Been Duplicate Original Actor

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. Paul Greengrass

Wisdom Difficult Give Inspiring Remembering Painful

We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. Richard Eyre

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about. Rob Reiner

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy. Scott Derrickson

Life Nature You Selfish Natural Honesty Intelligence Grace Vile Dark Sometimes Human Nature Our Moral See Entropy Clear Namely Look Also Force Any Human Against Works

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience. Stanley Kubrick

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. Steve Sabol

Inspirational Music Game Theatre Big Field Strategy Our Battleground Clarify Footage Football Part Football Field Like Look Piece Looks Glorify Narration Ballet Chess End Big Movie Screen Movie In The End Create Amplify Playground

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Steven Spielberg

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words. Tim Burton

Me People Problem Words Confused Understanding Say Those Kinds Abnormal People Say Something Never Had Always Real Been Normal Subjective Very Personal Meaning Meaning Of

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. Woody Allen

Me Sold Pocket Proud His Deathbed Very Gold Grandfather Watch

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Day You Every Others One Day Be Different Normal Normality Person Same Difference Different Different Person Your Aware Need

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock

Wake Up Pleasure Give Wake Up Same Them Nightmare

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Alfred Hitchcock

Television About Well Spreading Contributing Done Psychiatry Information Much Need

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