Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and … - Theodore Zeldin

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I hear a lot of, "We want to make a movie with you. " Then "No, we don't want to make this one. We want to make that other movie with you. " I don't really get that and it's very frustrating. It angers me. Because my movies are my movies.

Theodore Zeldin

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

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The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

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Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

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When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

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Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

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The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

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