William Kennedy famous quotes

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  • I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

  • I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

  • I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

  • To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.

  • I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

  • Good enough is never good enough.

  • This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

  • I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

  • I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

  • If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.