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"As a rule, one should never place form over content."
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"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information."

"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."

"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."

"There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content."

"The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else."

"It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content."
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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

"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 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."

"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."

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

"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
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