Exercise 70. Comment on the following statements. Do you agree or disagree with the
author? Give your reasons.
1. I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don’t. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. (Steven Soderbergh)
2. I heard a definition once: “Happiness is health and a short memory!” I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true. (Audrey Hepburn)
3. If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right. (Woody Allen)
4. If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up. (Angelina Jolie)
5. If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy. (David Schwimmer)
6. The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. (Dean Koontz)
7. Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, “Tell me your favorite movies,” it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you. (Andrew Sarris)
8. If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don’t have enough to eat. (Lloyd Kaufman)
Exercise 71. How many words can you make out of the word RELATIONSHIP?
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