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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
Baz Luhrmann
Life
Good
Not Good Enough
Enough
Relate
Kinship
Road
Feel
Feels
Anyone
Really
Who
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
David Lynch
Life
You
Man
Ignorance
Humor
Saw
Laugh
Would
Running
Struggling
He
Absurd
Absurdity
Like
Most
Until
Make
Because
Becomes
Repeatedly
Bloody
Wall
After
While
Pulp
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Courage
Will
Lost
Otherwise
Memorable
About
Instincts
Ideas
Courageous
Knuckle
Been
Just
Might
Really
Your
Things
I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
Garth Davis
Good
Respect
Heart
Good Heart
Research
Approach
Make
Trying
Just
Much
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas
Illusion
Secret
Movies
Film
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
Godfrey Reggio
Teacher
Good
Relationship
Good Teacher
Enter
Kind
Having
Students
Know
Context
Been
Years
Educator
Questions
So Many Years
Many
Raise
Set
There is beauty and humility in imperfection.
Guillermo del Toro
Beauty
Humility
Imperfection
I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer.
Guillermo del Toro
Love
Morning
You
Love Is
Fear
Wake Up
Important
Every
Think
Way
Define
Between
Over
Until
Because
Answer
Wake
End
Up
Story
Your
Choose
Choose Love
I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
Ingmar Bergman
Army
Darkness
Must
Find
Intuition
Throw
Intellect
Send
Then
Spear
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
James Broughton
Amazing
Every
Corner
Amazement
Us
Awaits
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
James Cameron
World
Living
Sun
Thousand
Brooding
Rim
India
Civil
Magic
Hush
Civil Servants
Cost
Drift
Ten
River
Like
Balances
Lord
Krishna
Descend
Moment
Evening
Servants
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Jean Cocteau
Sad
Great
News
You
Tell
Piece
Dead
Am
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Jean Cocteau
You
Criticizes
Cultivate
Public
There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.
John Singleton
Service
Me
Passion
Defense
Defense Mechanism
Way
Kind
Guy
Had
Developed
Like
Because
Up
Precedent
Survive
Any
Grew
To Survive
Hollywood
Mechanism
Hardly
Streets
Career
I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
Karan Johar
Happiness
Good
News
You
Happy
Phone
Will
Thought
Good News
Think
Relative
Later
Immediately
Phone Call
Minutes
About
Could
Emotion
Weird
Feel
Know
Annoys
Call
Because
Traffic
Five
Endings
Jam
Anything
Irritating
Your
Flip
Tweet
Eventually
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Lars von Trier
You
Stronger
Power
Otherwise
Someone
Provoke
Than
Want
Should
Your
Who
It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.
Luc Besson
Day
Change
People
Berlin Wall
Big
Before
Politicians
Down
Change Things
Berlin
All People
Guys
Small
Small People
Never
Always
Big Guys
Wall
Clue
Mean
Who
Specialists
Things
Streets
Pulled
Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
M. Night Shyamalan
Life
Great
Will
Bad
Bad Times
Lead
Always
Times
It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make.
Milos Forman
You
Change
World
Opportunities
Decision
Language
Country
Big
Build
Citizenship
Had
Lighthearted
Come
Know
Make
Leave
Friendships
Quite
Childhood
Anybody
Where
Place
Your
The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends with the rest of your life.
Richard Linklater
Life
You
People
Rest
College
First
Live
Those
Still
Friends
Often
Roommates
Your
You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry
You
Pretend
Witty
Serious
Just going to Bangladesh was an experience... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts.
Sarah Gavron
Music
You
Experience
Backward
Classical
Classical Music
Small
Devoid
Concerts
Go
Bangladesh
Going
Just
Villages
I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.
Sydney Pollack
Truth
People
Think
Telling
Telling The Truth
Never
Wrong
Go
Really
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Vittorio De Sica
Envy
Moral
Cases
Indignation
Most
If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
Woody Allen
Profit
Films
Something
Know
Doing
Movies
Show
Right
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen
Parents
Action
Kidnapped
Out
Snapped
Room
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