Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.


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It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
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I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
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I want to inspire, and be inspired.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON
I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
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The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
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