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"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."
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"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."
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"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."
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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
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"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."
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"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."
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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
Art

"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
Sense

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

"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."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

"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."
Age

"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."
Effect

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

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
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"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
Film

"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
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