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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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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. – 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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I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, youre kind of roughing it, literally. – Tippi Hedren

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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. – Oliver Stone

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The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didnt have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored. – Scott Caan

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I turn a lot of stuff down – big, big movies, the kind I wouldnt want to go to the cinema to see. – Matthew Fox

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