"When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one."

-- Gustav Mahler

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“Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.”
“Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.”
“I've never stopped learning.”
“There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.”
“When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.”
“My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.”
“I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.”
“I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.”

Source : "Exclusive Q&A: Filmmaker Breathes Fire into Ultra-Indie Bellflower". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.

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