"I'd been basically anchored in New York for three years, but I fled to L.A. after the funeral and decided that I had to start a movie immediately. It was the only way to avoid becoming overwhelmed by depression. And that meant financing the film myself because there is no such thing as "immediately" in movies that one writes."

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James Toback

#Writing Quotes #Funeral Quotes #Overwhelmed Quotes

“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.”
“The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.”
“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
“My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.”
“It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.”
“It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.”
“The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.”
“I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.”

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