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Joan Didion has 206 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how…
— Buster Keaton
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I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.
— Leni Riefenstahl
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When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
— Betty Dodson
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
— Harold Ramis
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Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you,…
— Roger Michell
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work…
— Orson Welles
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I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
— Natalie Wood
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I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix…
— David Zucker
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I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I…
— Joan Didion
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All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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