A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create a productive life in the present.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it&#39;s true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

For me the writing, when I&#39;m going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don&#39;t change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: &#39;We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,&#39; and when you ask what&#39;s left, they say: &#39;Well, the typing is very good.&#39;

When I was really young I didn&#39;t know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

Those are fun, especially if they&#39;re going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they&#39;re not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative.

John Sayles

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