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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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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."
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"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."

"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."

"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."

"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."
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