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"I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life."
"It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo."
"I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers."
"Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore."
"I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect."
"You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again."
"There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York."
"Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched."
"I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger."
"Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh."
"Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up."
"The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds."
"Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place."
"Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen."
"she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses."
"I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?"
". . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me."
"The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight."
"You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it."
"So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background."