"Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin."

-- Otto Penzler

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“If you can be not afraidï»¿ to be laughed at, you could do so many things.”
“Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.”
“Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.”

Source : "Kevin Kline Talks DARLING COMPANION, Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS, and His Oscar Short with Mike Myers". Press conference, collider.com. April 19, 2012.
“I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.”
“What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.”
“Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.”

Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
“I have faith in the jury system.”
“You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.”

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