James Agee, quotes

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.

Movies are made for respectable people now. (They) were better when made for lowbrows and made with instinct and delight

I’d do anything on earth to become a really great writer. That’s as sincere a thing as I’ve ever said.

She thought that she had never before had a chance to realize the strength that human beings have, to endure.

I hear my father and my mother and they are my giants, my king and my queen, beside whom there are no others so wise and worthy or honorable or brave or beautiful in this world.