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John Sayles

"If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day."

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Eraldo Banovac

"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."

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Eraldo Banovac

"The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media."

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Eraldo Banovac

"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."

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Eraldo Banovac

"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."

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Eraldo Banovac

"Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself."

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Eraldo Banovac

"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!"

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Eraldo Banovac

"Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, "Do you think those pills work?"Not like that, I said."No," he agreed. "Not like that."

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Eraldo Banovac

"In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything."

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Eraldo Banovac

"Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world."

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Eraldo Banovac

"There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented."

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John Sayles
"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."

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John Sayles
"For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie."

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John Sayles
"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."

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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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John Sayles
"I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book."

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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
"In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents."

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John Sayles
"We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised."

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John Sayles
"I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water."

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John Sayles
"I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'"

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