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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.  
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amuseme...  
I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the sc...  
I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.  
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow ca...  
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten u...  
It's only words... unless they're true.  
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say someth...  
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protecto...  
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge tho...  
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense a...  
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of t...  
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of ...  
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thou...  
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dr...