“In general, advertising isn't a "creative" atmosphere. It's a business atmosphere and your job is puzzle solving. My favorite aspect of the business, I guess, was presenting to clients. What I enjoyed least were the clients. Worried corporate brand managers, trying to dumb-down their ads for the stupid American population. I hated the disrespect that these people had for "consumers."”
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“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector”
“Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.”
“[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.”
“As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.”
“Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.”
“It is a sin to write this.”
“Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.”
“Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.”
“I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.”
“There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.”
“He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.”
“A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.”
“Settling other people's land is an American tradition.”
“What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.”
“I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.”
“Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.”
“I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say, "I don't want to be a man - I want the opportunities I can get as a woman." Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.”
“I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.”
“If marriages are said to be made in heaven then why search for grooms in hell.”