"Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse."

-- Harper Lee

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“People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.”
“A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.”

Source : Interview in Peter Graham's, The New Wave, 1968.
“True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.”
“People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.”
“The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.”
“In Lubbock, we grew up with two main things: God loves you and he's gonna send you to hell, and that sex is bad and dirty and nasty and awful and you should save it for the one you love.”
“Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.”
“Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.”

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