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John Sayles

"I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference."

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"I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference."

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Donna Grant

"I still ask myself why did you watched the film Paranormal Activity the all parts or the film "The VIsit" 2015. Both were home made and not big deal even stupid, you even watch football + you play one game over and over and over, you play stupid games + you watch stupid stuff and after all you still ask yourself why you are stupid. The answer is somewhere here, search it!"

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Donna Grant

"The agenda of the Media is not to inform you, they don't care about you, they are trying to show you the truth. There are some intelligent Christians but they can't find them and put on the air ...for instance me."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life."

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Donna Grant

"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."

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Donna Grant

"The news is glorified gossip."

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Donna Grant

"A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from."

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Donna Grant

"The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful - in the eyes of the remote holder."

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Donna Grant

"A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera-and bills to pay."

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Donna Grant

"Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That's why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!"

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Donna Grant

"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

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John Sayles
"You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing."

Creativity

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John Sayles
"I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book."

Work

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John Sayles
"I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean."

Time

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John Sayles
"We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised."

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John Sayles
"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."

Movies

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John Sayles
"Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative."

Fun

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John Sayles
"Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges."

People

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John Sayles
"The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough."

Character

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John Sayles
"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."

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John Sayles
"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me."

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