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Spike Lee Filmmaker, Actor
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"I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it."

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Stan Lee Comic Book Writer, Editor
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"I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables."

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Robert Morgan Poet, Novelist
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"In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out."

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Robert Morgan Poet, Novelist
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"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."

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Stephen King Author
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"There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation."

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"There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand."

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Roman Coppola Filmmaker
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"A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is On The Road, does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie."

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Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter
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"Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve."

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