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Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody Allen
Bisexuality
Immediately
Date
Doubles
Your
Saturday
Saturday Night
Night
Chances
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
Quentin Tarantino
Most
Fun
Fun Things
Things
Watch
Violence
Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.
Alan Ball
Racism
Matter
Coming
Where
Ridiculous
Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You
Matter
Looking
Affection
Think
Everybody
Validation
Recognition
Look
Condition
Human
Human Condition
Who
Need
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Thought
Ocean
Waves
Miraculous
Unconscious
Scientific
Same
Two
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life
Together
Comedy
Life Is A
Kind
Mixing
Tragedy
Going
Things
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock
Picture
More
Successful
Villain
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
Life
Drama
Bits
Out
Dull
Cut
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
Antonia Bird
Learning
Reality
Face
Fighting
Rehab
Way
Out
Find
Lies
Face Reality
About
Cliches
Refuge
Refusing
You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
Atom Egoyan
You
Genocide
Denial
Has-Been
About
Part
Most
Armenian
Talk
Armenian Genocide
How
Been
Forgotten
Holocaust
Really
Compelling
Marginal
If your dream is only about you, it's too small.
Ava DuVernay
You
Too
Dream
About
Only
Small
Your
Your Dream
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
Billy Wilder
Funny
Truth
You
People
Tell
Going
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
Christopher Miller
Happiness
Life
Key
Low Expectations
Expectations
Low
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones
People
Comedy
Unusual
Real
Real People
Situations
Farce
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
David Fincher
People
Idea
Obsessive
Lot
Professionalism
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
Denis Villeneuve
Truth
You
Paradox
Find
Contradiction
If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.
Edgar Wright
Home
You
School
Nice
Changed
Back
Slightly
Bittersweet
Seeing
Part
School Friends
Longer
Town
Terms
Because
Reunited
Without
Always
Go
Friends
Again
Them
Much
Your
Home Town
Nice Things
Things
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Elia Kazan
Will
Whatever
Secrecy
Exact
Mystery
Facts
Hysteria
Exists
Inflamed
Suspicion
Hard
Cool
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
Errol Morris
You
Phone
Other
Intimacy
Phone Call
Kinds
Emerge
Never
Call
Occur
Were
Person
Sitting
Might
Next
Certain
Right
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini
Word
Sense
Realistic
Everything
Bad
See
Between
Real
Line
Realism
Imaginary
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Federico Fellini
Eyes
Cinema
Lost
Our
Once
Possesses
Dream
Charisma
Dreamt
Charm
Habit
Hypnotic
Open
Disappeared
Longer
Because
Authority
Public
Us
Held
Image
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.
Francis Ford Coppola
Life
Me
You
Others
Share
Part
Understand
Existence
Trying
Personal
Modern
Artist
Modern Life
Requirement
Your
Illuminate
One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
Frank Darabont
Life
Christmas
Time
Wonderful
Suicide
Favorite
Favorite Movies
Pretty
All-Time
About
Guy
Because
Wonderful Life
Commit
Wants
Which
Interesting
Movies
Choice
Who
Reasons
Presented
I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.
George Lucas
Work
Education
School
Seriously
Car
College
Accident
Before
Community
Thinking
Summer
Spent
Bad
About
More
Hospital
Take
Heading
Like
Got
Go
Graduated
Where
Wanted
Decided
Race
Race Cars
Really
Community College
Car Accident
Right
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
George Lucas
Work
You
Important
Extremely
Without
Very
Get
Going
Anywhere
Working
Working Hard
Hard
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
George Lucas
Work
Me
Together
People
Big
Society
Out
Put
Make
Always
How
Been
Anthropology
Interest
Themselves
Works
Things
Started
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