"I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals."

-- James Ellroy

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“My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.”
“I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.”
“I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.”
“Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.”
“Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.”
“I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band.”

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“Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.”

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“I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.”

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