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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#arms #book #community #expecting #i

It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#films #finding #i #i think #monster

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#choose #classically #done #dramatic #films

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#film #film directors #interested #other #rare

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#ends #film #films #handle #how

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#best #doubt #give #himself #intellectual

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#age #bad #been #book #children

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#count #live #live audience #me #more

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot. ↗

— John Cusack

#again #eternal #fall #figure #get

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time. ↗

— John Cusack

#films #good #good films #hard #i