But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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