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John Sayles

"I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department."

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"I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music gives life to the soul."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music gives strength to the soul."

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Asa Don Brown

"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

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Asa Don Brown

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

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Asa Don Brown

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

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Asa Don Brown

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

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Asa Don Brown

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

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Asa Don Brown

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

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Asa Don Brown

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."

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Asa Don Brown

"Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart."

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John Sayles
"Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money."

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John Sayles
"You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing."

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John Sayles
"There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'"

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John Sayles
"Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that."

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John Sayles
"I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'"

Movies

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John Sayles
"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."

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John Sayles
"There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it."

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John Sayles
"I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money."

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John Sayles
"And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet."

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John Sayles
"Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old."

Acting

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