Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.
I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.
I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.
Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.
Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.
A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it. " An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.