"Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film."

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Source : Interview with Briony Hanson, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

Gus Van Sant

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“You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When you feel your best, you're more confident in bed, It's not lights-out, under-the-covers sex. It's more like, 'Take a look at this!'”

Source : "Join the Gwyneth Paltrow & Tracy Anderson Fit Club". Interview with Judith Newman, www.redbookmag.com. December 20, 2012.
“People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.”
“If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.”
“Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.”
“If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (2005). “Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke”, p.146, David R. Godine Publisher
“They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.”
“Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the directors eyes, you get it right does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.”

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