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Quote by Peter Bogdanovich

“Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.”

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Peter Bogdanovich is an American film director known for his passion for classic Hollywood cinema and his contributions to independent film. His works are characterized by deep character development and a unique narrative style. more

“The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best critic. If I can put something away and then come back, it's like taking a painting you're working on, turning it upside down, squinting at it, or walking away to get a new view. Time helps you know whether it's worth saving or whether it should be dumped.”

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Author:Karla Kuskin

“Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.”

Writing Wells Eye Able Possibility Writing Well

Author:Lucy Calkins

“War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.”

War Stories Arms Tragedy Bells Farewell Diplomacy Great War Tolls War Stories Farewell To Arms Whom The Bell Tolls

Author:David Mamet

“The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.”

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Author:David Hare

“I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.”

Film Unhappy

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.”

Medicine Saved Cinema Aspirin

Author:Luc Besson

“A film that can be described in words is not really a film.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.”

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Author:Confucius

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