Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if … - William Monahan

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Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

William Monahan

Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.

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When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.

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You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.

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I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.

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I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.

Art, Audiences, Collaborative, Needs, Opinion, Terrible

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.

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