"John Belushi infused Animal House with this spirit of guerilla filmmaking. John Landis came from that world too, and all the National Lampoon writers were from that world. It was just chaos on film. Controlled chaos, though. We stayed very close to the script. It was a very formal kind of movie, if you look at it. Formally photographed and structured, with certain elements of improv."

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Source : Source: film.avclub.com

Tim Matheson

#Animal Quotes #House Quotes #World Quotes

“I didn't want to live in LA again, although I'd go back every couple of months to do an interview, usually with a heavy rock or metal band. And as the decade went on, so much of that scene had become totally corrupted by too much coke and money and silicone.”
“The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.”
“I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had â€œbecome a lesbianâ€â€”but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poetâ€”and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.”

Source : "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.
“College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.”
“It is always the unreadable that occurs.”
“What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts....”
“Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.52, Soho Press
“Literary theories will not make a writer write.”

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