"What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself."

-- Richard Maxwell

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“La socieÂ teÂ Â ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.”
“Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.”
“A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if theyve had a competitive relationship with their own father.”
“A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.”
“Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.”
“And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.”
“To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.”
“Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.”

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