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"I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying."
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

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"While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed."

"When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those."

"First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids."

"I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach."

"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."

"Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face."
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