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Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.


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The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

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Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

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I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

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