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"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."

"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."

"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."

"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."
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