"I don't think about the audience, I don't think about what makes them happy, because there's no way for me to know. To try to think of what makes for entertainment is a very Japanese thing. The people who think like this are old-fashioned. They think of the audience as a mass, but in fact every person in the audience is different. So entertainment for everyone doesn't exist"

-- Takashi Miike

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
“I don't lie," I lied.”
“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast...”
“Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.”
“All you can do is all you can do.”
“Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to be imaginative, and if you're intrigued, the work will grow on you and you're going to build your own interpretation.”
“I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.”

Source : William Hooper (1859). “Fifty Years Since: An Address, Delivered Before the Alumni of the University of North Carolina, on the 7th of June, 1859, (being the Day Before the Annual Commencement.)”, p.5
“The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.”

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