Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

Everyone needs money. That's why they call it money

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.