I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.
Whit StillmanI think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.
Whit StillmanDecline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all, and then I got to love Waugh. And I think that maybe "Cosmopolitans" has a bit of an Evelyn Waugh vibe to it at some point.
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