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Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.
Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'
As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.