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->''(The Zec is speaking to an underling [[YouHaveFailedMe who has failed him.]])''\\
'''The Zec:''' I was in prison in Siberia. I spent my first winter wearing a dead man's coat. A hole in one pocket. I chewed these fingers off ''(holds up his left hand, which has only stubs)'' before the frostbite could turn to gangrene. These ''(his right hand has only a thumb and pointer)'' I gave up to avoid working in the sulfur mine. That is how I survived when so many others did not. A man this rare can always be of use. So show me. Show me you are rare. Show me you'll do anything to survive.\\
'''Linsky:''' I don't understand.\\
'''The Zec:''' The fingers from your left hand.\\
''(long pause)''\\
'''Linsky:''' Have you... Have you got a knife?\\
'''The Zec:''' Did I have a knife in Siberia?\\
'''Linsky:''' No... Come on, you've, you've got to be kidding.\\
'''The Zec:''' You can do it. Show me.\\
'''Linsky:''' ''(tries to chew his thumb off, sinks to his knees crying)'' Christ! I can't, I can't!\\
'''The Zec:''' Always the bullet. I don't understand. \\
''(Linsky is shot)''
-->--'''from Film/JackReacher'''
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->''"I would like to see the Baby."''
-->--'''The Client''', ''Series/TheMandalorian''
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->"I've been friends with him for 30 years. We were once on a panel at Telluride: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._A._Pennebaker D.A. Pennebaker]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hegedus Chris Hegedus]], Creator/MichaelMoore, Werner and me. Werner in his thick accent stops the proceedings and says, ''"I am interested in an ecstatic truth. My friend Ken, he's interested in an emotional truth. You, Michael, with your big belly, you're interested in a physical truth,"'' and he turns to Pennebaker and Hegedus and says ''"And you, I think you are my enemy. Cinéma vérité is the cinema of accountants."'' For Werner it doesn't matter what rules you violate. If it says, "No Jaywalking" he will jaywalk.
-->--Interview with '''Creator/KenBurns''', ''New York Times Magazine'', 21 March 2021
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-->--Interview with Paul Cronin, ''Herzog on Herzog''

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-->--Interview with Paul Cronin, '''Paul Cronin''', ''Herzog on Herzog''
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-->—-Interview with Paul Cronin, ''Herzog on Herzog''

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->''"Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let’s say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about five thousand kilometers. While walking, write. Write about your experiences and give me your notebooks. I would be able to tell who had really walked the distance and who had not. While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion."''
-->—-Interview with Paul Cronin, ''Herzog on Herzog''
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