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The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.
John Sayles -
Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.
John Sayles
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Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.
John Sayles -
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'
John Sayles -
I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
John Sayles -
I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.
John Sayles -
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
John Sayles -
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
John Sayles