First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?
I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.
Stop crying. . . keep hustling.
So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.
Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with.
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer. . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.