Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

If a man gets paid, say, $300,000 for directing a picture, it is hard for him not to compromise. When you work in a major studio, when the studio owns the story, you have to be very clear in your own mind why you are there. If you are there primarily to make money, then compromise is all right, in fact it becomes obligatory. In my case, I have to know when to draw the line, and I have to be prepared to quit at any time. If I am prepared to quit rather than give in to changes, then I am safe. It is only when you are not prepared to do this that you are in trouble. I don’t want to get into a thing about New York and Hollywood. Gena and I like it here, the swimming pools and all that, but it makes it harder to fight. A movie or TV producer calls you into his office and pleads with you not to do this or that. It is too controversial, not commercial. You think of the life out here, then wind up doing something he wants you to do. They have a wonderful way of just simply saying no and then inviting you to go out and play golf with them later on, or to dinner that same night. So, it becomes very, very difficult to fight with personal friends.

—p.112 Too Late Blues and A Child Is Waiting (1960–62) (102) by John Cassavetes 2 months ago