"The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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“I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.”
“Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.”
“I think the secret to success is a short-term outlook. So for example, I'm writing the next Killing book now and I have to just make every chapter compelling, so I can't get too far ahead of it. I just stay in the present and then go over what I have to do.”
“You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.”
“What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.”
“Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.”
“When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.”
“We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.”

Source : "Hong Kong protesters promise to keep up occupation" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2014.

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