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Hot Labor Summer is all too real, so Hollywood's creatives are finding some, well, creative ways to raise money for strike funds.

A timeless cautionary tale of universities placing undue significance on football, our infatuation with popularity, and callous racism, inevitably leading to guerilla warfare by rebels.

Does any story ever just conclude these days?

... you're sure the editor hates your words, your soul, your children, and even your dogs. Revel in this misery. It's why you became a pen monkey.

"Over time, I realized, you have to read between the lines."

"I would pinch myself sometimes on set, going, 'I'm so fucking lucky to be in this room.' Like, I get goosebumps. I am so lucky."

I was creating something so this skin could move through the world like a phantom. Something that would protect me as I hid beneath the surface of whatever I’ve become.

From documentaries to commercials to feature films, Javier Solórzano Casarin takes us on a step-by-step retelling of how his love for filmmaking grew into a lifetime passion.

Can you imagine how hard it was for me to write prose? You can’t. Because it was harder than you imagined. I had to learn to write again.

Because, yes, there is merit to writing what you know—but when you’re in the middle of something, you absolutely do not know it. It isn’t over yet.

As the movie goes on, Pacino grows more and more facial hair until it envelops him, and he suffocates to death.

It’s not CGI. We buy it because seeing is believing.

There is no one recipe for success, but I suppose there is one surefire recipe for failure—inaction. Finish things you start.

—the moment you become part of a community’s story, it will forever be part of you.

They say if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. What they don't tell you is that once you do make it here, you'll never want to make it anywhere else.