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" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

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" I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. "

" Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar. "

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" Fear has many faces. "

" I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers. "

" There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously. "

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" Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more. "

" I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them. "

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" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

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" Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness. "

" I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size! "

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" Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion. "

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" But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. "

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