I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of SLIGHTLY difficult male directors when I was a KID. I've SINCE WORKED with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

I was RAISED in a WAY where there was no DISTINCTION between KIDS and adults.

The gruesomeness of 'Death LINE' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how DEVASTATING class distinction COULD be.

I have this long-running IDEA that the DISTINCTION between FICTION and NONFICTION is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

The DISTINCTION between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It DATES BACK to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a TOTALLY false dichotomy.

That ATTITUDE does not exist so MUCH today, but in those DAYS there was a very SHARP distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not DEAL with applied physics.

How advertising is handled has always been a KEY distinction between low and HIGH order PUBLISHING. The higher you stood, the more separate you were from advertising, and, in the logic of SNOBBERY, the greater a premium price the top brands would pay to be in your company.

It was ALWAYS said that the big distinction between the French and the ENGLISH is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

IRS is very poorly equipped to MAKE a DISTINCTION between what is a RELIGION and what is not.

I think too MANY PEOPLE in Hollywood PERHAPS fail to make a DISTINCTION between the political side of Israel and the notion of the country. And they can be separate THINGS.

I never make a DISTINCTION between PRIVATE LIFE and politics - that's a petit bourgeois THING. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the FIRST to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first HUMAN being to set foot upon the TOP of Alaska's great mountain, and he had WELL EARNED the lifelong distinction.

I don't make MUCH distinction between being a stand-up comic and ACTING Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a GOOD comedian, you're never GOING to be able to play Hamlet properly.

And if we are HONEST we have to MAKE a distinction between a DEMOCRATIC Israel that wants to live in peace and the TERRORISTS who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up LAND for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.