Book: Hollywood

When I communicate with people, good or bad, my feelings are blunted, I cease to perceive the words and shall be at the mercy of the source. Retain civility. Nod. Pretend that all understand, because I do not want to offend anyone. And my weakness repeatedly plunged me into serious trouble. Trying to be kind to others, I turn my soul in a nutrient broth.

We all need to escape from reality. Watch stretch unbearably slow, and they need to fill with events, until death comes. And there aren't a lot of space for glorious deeds and the real fun. All quickly get bored or he starts to frighten. Wake up in the morning, get out from under the blankets, sit on the bed and think: hell, what do you do then?

- If you were the last guy in the whole world, and that I won't look.
Whether I'm the last guy you'd have to wait long for their turn.

- Do you believe that drunkenness should glorify?
- No more than anything else.
- Is it alcoholism is not dangerous?
Breathing is also harmful.
- But drunks obnoxious, isn't it?
- In the majority - Yes. As non-drinkers.

Wake up in the morning, get out from under the blankets, sit on the bed and think: hell, what then?

There's nothing worse than cheap red wine, the cheap white wine, if it has time to warm up.

Finally Sarah said, "We should go home, cats to feed." The booze could wait. Hollywood could wait. Cats could not wait. I obeyed.

The simple answer is often not obvious, but simplicity is the basis of a profound truth, in the basis of the work in writing and painting. Depth of life is in its simplicity.

Actors are a different breed than other mortals. They have all their views. When day by day you pretend not who you are, it's not in vain. It becomes difficult to be yourself.

We all from time to time represented status.

In the evening, sitting at the typewriter, I blew one after the other, two glasses of wine, smoked three cigarettes, listened to the radio the Third Symphony of Brahms, and finally realized that won't start without a push.

I looked in the mirror. I actually like myself, only not in the mirror. It isn't like me.

Know the difference between a critic and a mere spectator? Critic watches a movie for free.

- What is your life philosophy?
- How to think less.
- And what else?
- If that's not enough, try to be kind.