It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

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