"It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need your own specific interpretation of the superobjective so that every time you think of it, it makes you emotional and drives you into action."

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Source : Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.30, Bantam

Larry Moss

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“Instruments of a trade are really fascinating to me. Things that enable you to do your job better. Rehabbing houses is really fun to me. I love taking a space and seeing the potential, gutting it, and putting it back together and I love the tools used to do that.”

Source : Source: sojo.net
“I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new limbs to do what it needs to do. So there's very little planning. There's a little planning where I say, "Well, it looks like I'm going in this direction, ok, good." But there's very little forethought or intellectual justification: "Oh, look, I'm putting in a theme park because that represents dystopian America!"”
“Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.”
“I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.”
“Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.”
“People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.”
“Video game engines can handle the kind of complexity and realism you can't put into a movie - yet. But games are getting better and better - I imagine a day where you won't be able to tell a game from a movie, with great A.I. animation and photoreal, interactive environments, etc.”
“I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.61, Penguin

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