What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life cleare...r than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for ...film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men seem to flip around the television more than women. Men get that remote control in their hands, they don't even know what the ...hell they're not watching. You know we just keep going, "Rerun, that's stupid, he's stupid, go, go, go." "What are you watching?" "I don't care, I gotta keep going." "Who was that?" "I don't know what it was, doesn't matter, it's not your fault. I gotta keep going." "I think that's a documentary on your father." "Don't care, what else is on?" Women don't do this. Women will stop and go, "Well let me see what the show is, before I change the channel. Maybe we can nurture it, work with it, help it grow into something." Men don't do that. Because women nest and men hunt. That's why we watch TV differently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I got [to Hollywood], all the movie moguls claimed to be astounded by the reality of my films. How did I do it? And I'd say, ..."Well, it wasn't hard to make Harlem look like Harlem."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you--you do not... even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes be...cause the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions--especially selfish ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »