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" I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue. "
Edward Zwick
Bit
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" Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight. "
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" One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty. "
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" A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake. "
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" There's a rising tide of concern among activists, economists, and artists about Africa. Theres a temptation to think of it as a monolith as opposed to all these different countries with different problems. "
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" I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness. "
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" One resists categorization at one's peril. "
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" Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view. "
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" To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film. "
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" The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers. "
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" I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. "
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" People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself. "
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" Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better. "
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" My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can. "
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" The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are. "
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" Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then. "
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" I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings. "
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