"Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good â€” suggestive of more than just what it is â€” it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff."

-- Robert Adams

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“Villains can often be one note and I would say in that case, it's not fun to play the villain. It's fun to play the villain if he a) has dimension and b) the villain gets to do all the things in the movie that in life he would get punished for. In the movie, you're applauded for them if you do them with panache. And so that's why it's more fun to play the villain.”
“It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.”
“Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.”
“How we live our religion is far more important than what we may say about our religion.”
“I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.”
“Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested....”

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