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"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world."
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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."
"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."
"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."
"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."
"Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing."
"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."
"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."
"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."
"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."
"There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you."
"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."
"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly."
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