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"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader."
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"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think."

"Your most precious asset is your right thinking!"

"It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains."

"The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors."
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"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."

"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."
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