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“I‘ve forgotten who it was that said creation is memory. My own experiences and the various things I have read remain in my memory and become the basis upon which I create something new. I couldn’t do it out of nothing. For this reason, since the time I was a young man I have always kept a notebook handy when I read a book. I write down my reactions and what particularly moves me. I have stacks and stacks of these college notebooks, and when I go off to write a script, these are what I read. Somewhere they always provide me with a point of breakthrough. Even for single lines of dialogue I have taken hints from these notebooks. So what I want to say is, don’t read books while lying down in bed.”
― Akira Kurosawa, Something Like an Autobiography

“It seems to me the only hope for mankind lies in magic. I have always hated reality, but it’s the only place you can get good chicken wings.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“I just didn’t grasp the finer points and once tipped a process server who knocked on my door and handed me a summons.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast