"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."

-- Cesare Pavese

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“My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things, some of the pieces I've used there, when I first wrote them, they seemed probably very menacing, and I hear them now, and they're just kind of pleasant, if that's the word.”

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“I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.”

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“What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.”
“It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.”
“When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.”
“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”

Source : Fragment in Plutarch De facie in or be lunae, 929b.
“I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.”
“There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.”

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