"I only understand realism."

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"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."

Mario Lopez, American Actor

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"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."

Lynn Redgrave, British Actress

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"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."

Jack Valenti, American Businessman

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"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"

John Hughes, American Director

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"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."

Kevin Bacon, American Actor

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"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge."

Leonard Maltin, American Critic

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"Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies."

S. E. Hinton, American Writer

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."

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"Writers are not meant for action."

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"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."

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"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader."

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"I allow my intuition to lead my path."

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

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"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"

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"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."

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

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