![The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-directors-in-charge-of-every-single-decision-in-film-its-a-dictatorship.jpg)
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment? Al Pacino
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We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment. John Bolton
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Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind. Chris Colfer
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A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. Bruce Tulgan
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The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given. Kofi Annan
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The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary. David Hume
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I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind
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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. Michael Winter
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Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest. Levi Woodbury
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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.' Alan Rickman
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Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work. Alan Alda
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I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director. Denzel Washington
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Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal. Charles Bronson
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