Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Quotes
The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
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The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.
