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" There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults. "

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" When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film. "

" Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable. "

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" I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie. "

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" For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across. "

" I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get. "

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