"I naively thought I was making a low-budget movie. But, when the film came out, the Daily Variety reviewer at that time who was named Art Murphy described it as an exploitation film. I had never heard that term before. Roger never used it. So that's how I learned that I had made an exploitation film."

-- Stephanie Rothman

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“I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.”
“Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.”

Source : Richard Rohr (1996). “Job and the Mystery of Suffering: Spiritual Reflections”, p.177, Gracewing Publishing
“As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.”

Source : KATE LANGLEY BOSHER (1910). “MARY CARY "FREQUENTLY MARTHA"”
“Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind." "Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn the corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles." "The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.”
“I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in vain to find one that had my name on it. Because there were so many books in the library, with so many different names on them, Iâ€™d assumed that one of themâ€”somewhereâ€”had to be mine. I didnâ€™t understand at the time that a personâ€™s name appears on a book because he or she wrote it. Now that Iâ€™m twenty-six I know better. If I were ever going to find my book one day, I was going to have to write it.”
“A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.”
“Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!”
“I can say with great confidence that I was much more critical of the people I knew than of the people I didn't. Just because I know what they're capable of, so the bar is set so much higher for them - unfairly, frankly.”

Source : "Life as Chris Lowell". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 28, 2014.

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