"It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Irvin Kershner

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“Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list,”

Source : "A Senate in the Gun Lobby's Grip". www.nytimes.com. April 18, 2013.
“No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.”
“With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans! Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.”
“A man who is a man goes on until he can go no furtherâ€”and then goes twice as far.”

Source : Steve Sheinkin (2012). “Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon”, p.57, Macmillan
“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”
“If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.”

Source : Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.8, Harper Collins
“What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.”
“The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning,”

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