"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

-- Chuck Jones

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“You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”
“Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.”
“I think thatâ€™s whats wrong with the world. No one says what they feel, they always hold it inside. Theyâ€™re sad, but they donâ€™t cry. Theyâ€™re happy, but they donâ€™t dance or sing. Theyâ€™re angry, but they donâ€™t scream. Because if they do, they feel ashamed. And thatâ€™s the worst feeling in the world. So everyone walks with their heads down and no one sees how beautiful the sky is.”
“I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.”
“Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.”

Source : "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.
“I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.”
“It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.”
“When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.”

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