A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
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Don't be shy. Put your nose right up to the bunghole.Graham Greene
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood
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