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We Americans Have Always Considered Hollywood, At Best, A Sinkhole Of Depraved Venality. And, Of Course, It Is. It Is Not A Protective Monastery Of Aesthetic Truth. It Is A Place Where Everything Is Incredibly Expensive.

The Terror And Beauty Of The Dream Come From The Connection Of Previously Unrelated Mundanities Of Life.

Characters On Stage, Like People In What We Refer To As "real Life," Do Not Speak To Reveal Themselves. They Do Not Speak To Conceal Themselves. They Speak To Get Whatever It Is That They Want. It Is The Only Reason They Speak.

Blasphemy And Prayer Are One. Both Assert The Existence Of A Superior Power. The First, However, With Conviction.

The True Writer Must Write Not The Acceptable But The True.