Quote by Tony Kushner
You dont go to the movies to do historical research, unless its hi

You dont go to the movies to do historical research, unless its historical research about the movies. – Tony Kushner

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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? – Tony Kushner

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Beauty
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You have a strange relationship with calamity when youre a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and thats a creepy thing to do. – Tony Kushner

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relationship
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The kind of theater that I do is sort of narrative realism, which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Loris plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist. – Tony Kushner

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Success
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I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I dont sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I dont. Theres always a good reason for doing something. – Famke Janssen

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movies

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, its helpful. So the fact that there wont be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, thatd be helpful. – John Cusack

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movies

I make movies that nobody will see. Ive made movies that even I have never seen. – Christopher Walken

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movies

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. – Julie Bowen

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movies

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Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

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Shame

Set a thief to catch a thief. – Proverb

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Crime

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. – Mike Krzyzewski

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Imagination