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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. ”
Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning. ”
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. ”
I was a busboy, a waiter, a manager, a sommelier... like... all of it from a family-run Polish restaurant, with, like, grandmas in the basement hand-making pierogies, to working at Bond Street for a while. I've done it all. ”
I don't feel any connection to Russia. ”
When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation. ”
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. ”
In an era of instant communication, a flaw or non-perfect product creates immediate bad buzz. ”
I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that. ”
The one thing you know we won't do is, literally, 'Modern Warfare 2.' ”