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"You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
"The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!"
"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"
"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."
"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."
"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."
"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."
"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."
"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."
"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."
"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep."
"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."
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