"I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel."

-- Michael Lewis

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“I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.”

Source : "In 'The Rover,' Guy Pearce Takes A Bleak Road Trip". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. June 18, 2014.
“A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.”
“A lot of the people that I play with are electronic-based, so there isn't a direct physical analogue between what they're doing and the sound you're hearing.”
“School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.”
“You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.”

Source : "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.
“Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.”
“I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with; it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.”
“The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.”

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