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“It’s the trajectory of every revolution, you know. As Eric Hoffer said, every great idea starts as a movement, becomes a business, and winds up as a racket. That’s just nature. That’s what happens. It’s like the life and death of any organism. All you can do is delay the curve.”
― Paul Fischer, The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema

“Pacino later wrote in his memoir, Sonny Boy. “It stuck with me for a long time. Life’s on the wire, man. That’s my acting, my life. When I work, I’m on the wire. When I’m going for it. When I’m taking chances. I want to take chances. I want to fly and fail … It’s what’s kept me alive.”
― Paul Fischer, The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema

“… his growing concern with the immorality of our time, the decay of such values as loyalty, courtesy, courage and honor.

“Immorality is what is destroying us, public immorality. The failure of man toward men, the selfishness that puts making a buck more important than the common weal.”
― Jackson J. Benson, The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer

“Oligarchies are the death of innovation.”
― Paul Fischer, The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema