"Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal."

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Source: Seeing Things Straight. Interview by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2006.

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Joan Didion

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Joan Didion was an influential American writer known for her incisive essays and novels that explore themes of memory, identity, and societal change.

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