True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.
all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.
You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.
If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.
It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.
John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.
And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.