"If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides."

-- Robert Quillen

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“Iâ€™m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, itâ€™s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. Itâ€™s not just an art form; itâ€™s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. Itâ€™s my way of telling a story.”
“We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.”
“If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.”
“I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.”

Source : "CRAIGSLIST / On the record: Craig Newmark". SFGATE Interview, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2004.
“Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.”
“There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang”
“Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?”
“Sometimes all we need is only listening to an inner voice and remaining human in a very personal way. But even if it is a personal way, it's still a very valid way - maybe the most valid way. It doesn't have to be a collective experience or someone telling you what to do. The most sacred human experience can be a very personal one.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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