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• I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are…
• The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
• The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
• Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
• Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens…
• Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.
• I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...…
• All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that…
• I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?
• If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and…
• I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least…
• People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

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