"it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office."

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Greta Garbo

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“The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.”
“I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The last freedom is choosing your attitude.”
“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.199, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.”
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”

Source : Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.54, Metropolitan Books
“It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.”
“Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.”

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