"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death."

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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

— Raymond Chandler