"My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture."

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“Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.”
“The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.”
“Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.”
“We will not have failure - only success and new learning.”
“Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again, all foolish blunders, all silly mistakes, all loss of time and opportunity - everything will be repeated with the exception of the chance you had this time, because chance never comes in the same form.You will have to look for your chance next time. And in order to do this, you will have to remember many things, and how will you remember then if you do not remember anything now?”
“Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?”
“Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.”
“Now is the time to lead your ideal life.”

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