"Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores."

-- John Searle

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“You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.”
“For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.”
“Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.”
“This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.”
“I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.”
“I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.”
“Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.”
“I would rather get out of the game than stay in the game to change the game.”

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