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"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."

"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."

"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."

"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."

"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."

"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."

"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."

"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
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