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Being Creative Is Having Something To Sell, Or Knowing How To Sell Something, Or Having Sold Something. It Has Taken Over What We Used To Mean By Being "wised Up" Knowing The Tricks, The Shortcuts.

A Steady Diet Of Mass Culture Is A Form Of Deprivation.

I Felt As If I Had Attended The Funeral Of Someone I Didn't Know.

Watching Old Movies Is Like Spending An Evening With Those People Next Door. They Bore Us, And We Wouldn't Go Out Of Our Way To See Them; We Drop In On Them Because They're So Close. If It Took Some Effort To See Old Movies, We Might Try To Find Out Which Were The Good Ones, And If People Saw Only The Good Ones Maybe They Would Still Respect Old Movies. As It Is, People Sit And Watch Movies That Audiences Walked Out On Thirty Years Ago. Like Lot's Wife, We Are Tempted To Take Another Look, Attracted Not By Evil But By Something That Seems Much More Shameful -- Our Own Innocence.

If You Use Hollywood As The Test Tissue For Mankind, What Could The Prognosis Be?