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01 / evaluation
“Because I think his movies were a lot more formulaic, his later movies. It was a formula that worked, but his genius sort of faded much earlier than…I am struggling here, because he was a brilliant movie maker.”
02 / evaluation
“[laughter] I think Lennon was a bit of a jerk, frankly, although he was a great lyricist.”
03 / evaluation
“I don’t think the answer is either, what you might be implying, because you could go one of two ways ‑‑ the plebiscitary Robespierre kind of democracy on the one hand, or Singapore, basically non‑democracy and a rule of experts on the other.”
04 / evaluation
“That was part of the appeal. It’s a wide, but thin, coalition that has been assembled by a very skillful young man ‑‑ and I now really do feel old, because he’s at least a decade younger than me ‑‑ by promising all things to all people.”
05 / evaluation
“I think we should judge him on his poetry and forgive the fact that he wanted to get the hell out of Dodge in 1939, because he wasn’t.”