Quote by Joan Didion
Before Id written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes wi

Before Id written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when youve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other peoples ability to do that. – Joan Didion

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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – Joan Didion

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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. – Joan Didion

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Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion

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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. – Francis Ford Coppola

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I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think. – Nicolas Cage

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I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted. – John Cusack

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Movies were a struggle for me – they didnt come easy. – Mandy Patinkin

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