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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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My agent said, You arent good enough for movies. I said, Youre fired. – Sally Field

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Ill probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. Ill try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and shes still doing the same thing. – Lindsay Lohan

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