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"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."

"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."

"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."

"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."

"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
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