"I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western."

-- Gus Van Sant

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“He regarded himself as an accomplished writer â€” a clear sign of madness in anyone.”
“If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.”
“the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.”
“The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental physics indicates that it should be possible to compute even another billion times more efficiently. That would put the power of all of today's present computers in the palm of your hand. That says to me that the age of computing really hasn't even begun yet.”
“My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.”
“[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.”
“It's actually not much of a risk to say, "I don't think we should put sex workers in jail." That's a decent, normal thing you should believe. But then what are you going to do about it?”
“I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.”

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