"Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material."

-- William Mortensen

#Facts Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Sole Quotes

“Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.”
“I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.”
“War is cinema, and cinema is war”
“For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.6, Ballantine Books
“My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.”
“Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.”
“There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.”
“As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.”

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