Big Sur (2013)

Balthazar Getty: Michael McClure

Quotes 

• Jack Kerouac : You ought to go to Hollywood and play Billie the Kid.

  Michael McClure : What I'd rather do is go to Hollywood and play Rimbaud.

  Jack Kerouac : Well, you can't play Jean Harlow.

• Michael McClure : When I first read your book of poems, "Mexico City Blues," I turn around and I start writing completely differently. Everything changed, man. That book. It enlightened me.

  Jack Kerouac : Well, it's nothing like you do. In fact it's miles away. I'm a language spinner and you're an idea man.