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" A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning. "

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" What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy. "

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" My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge. "

" The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was. "

" My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back. "

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" Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials. "

" For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite. "

" Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter. "

" All I do is work and be with my family. "

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Family

" The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.' "

" As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working. "

" Every man's entitled to hope. "

" A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you. "

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Person

" To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process. "

" What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle. "

" Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own. "

" I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people. "

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Learn

Know

" The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's making, you know, the solar system work wants me to do. And I expect when he wants me to stop, I'll be the first to find out. "

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" It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't. "

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Kind

" I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all. "

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" The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating. "

" That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly. "

" When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western. "

" In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since. "

" I have several different masks that I wear. "

" The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church. "

" I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself. "

" The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass. "

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" With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein. "

" Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?' "

" Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time. "