Charles Baudelaire

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

We are all born marked for evil.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.