People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and thats a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. – Lucille Clifton
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – Aldous Huxley
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. Thats what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was Youre a Big Boy Now. – Francis Ford Coppola