"A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,"

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Source : "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview With Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.

Howard Barker

#Play Quotes #Certain Quotes #Ordeals Quotes

“I was not someone who participated in other people's castles”
“In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.”
“Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.”
“Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.”
“What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!”
“The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.”
“The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.”
“There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it.”

Source : Russell Chatham (1988). “Dark Waters: Essays, Short Stories and Articles”

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