"In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence."

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Source : "Interview: Gary Ross breathes his life into 'Pleasantville'". www.cnn.com. October 12, 1998.

Gary Ross

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“I used to always pull my jersey out of my pants. Earl Tatum was like that, too. I was just more comfortable. There were no rules then. They didn't make you tuck your jerseys in and it was just comfortable for me.”
“You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.”
“...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.”
“I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.”
“The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage.”
“Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.”
“I became stereotyped.”
“Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talentâ€¦ this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.”

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