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" A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. "
Result
Energy
Arts
" Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. "
He
Critics
Writer
" I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. "
Believe
Live
People
" If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. "
American
Women
Process
" I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read. "
Day
Off
Nothing
" If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right. "
Good
Book
Film
" I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. "
Thought
Rather
Sophistication
" I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species. "
Endangered Species
Become
Think
" I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that. "
Go
Word
Love
" I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine. "
Say
Royal
Play
" I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. "
Fail
You
Think
" It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people. "
Great
Work
Study
" Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day. "
Day
Good
Better
" Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them. "
Movies
People
Think
" There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. "
You
Adapt
Successful
" There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A. "
Early
Work
Wanted
" To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? "
Famous
Woman
Marriage
" You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. "
Important
Know
True
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