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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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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"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."
"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
"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."
"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."
"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
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