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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have several different masks that I wear. "

" Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable. "

" 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. "

" There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow. "

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

" Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses at approximately the price at which they would not mind having the horse bought. "

" Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day. "

" When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that. "

" Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials. "

" 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. "

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

" I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason. "

" 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. "

" In any operation, what you have to do is to persuade the patient to grant access to the patient's energy. The purest form of that is when you're trying to help a woman through labor: when you're saying, 'Push, push!' and you're rhythmically with the woman. "

" When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence. "

" I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry. "

" 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. "

" Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Every man's entitled to hope. "

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

" 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.' "