"I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths."

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Source : "Opening Night" by Peter Bogdanovich, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2011.

John Cassavetes

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“Women, they are mysterious creatures!”
“Snub end of a dismal year, deep in the dwarf orchard, The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars, I stand in the dark and answer to My life, this shirt I want to take off, which is on fire . . .”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.4, Macmillan
“People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.”

Source : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
“Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.”
“In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”
“Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.”
“Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.”
“Emotion and thinking are not distinct substances.”

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