I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful…

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This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of...

This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of...

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second...

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second...

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything...

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything...

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high...

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high...

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come...

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come...

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman...

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman...

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside...

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside...

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a...

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a...

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the...

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the...

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and...

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and...

They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the...

They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the...

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion...

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion...

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of...

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of...

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be...

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be...

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis,...

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis,...

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so...

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so...