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Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'
Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.
I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.
I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more
It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself. "Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is?
I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.
There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.
It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!
Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods
Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind?
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.
I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.