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"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."
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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
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"A writer cannot serve today those who make history, he must serve those who are subject to it."
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"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
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"My dear Copperfield, he replied. "To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve. Even in our professional correspondence, said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, "the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!"
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"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."
Fear
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
Poor
"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm."
Politics
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
Film
"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
Change
"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
Home
"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
Body
"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
Life
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
God
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
Crime
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