"Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius."

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Thelma Schoonmaker

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“Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.”
“I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.”
“The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.”
“My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.”
“I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together so we can tell all of the families, all of the wives and children, just how good we were because they never got to see us play.”
“In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.”
“Dying people often become childish.”
“The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.”

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