Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.David Mamet
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
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