"A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools."

-- Benjamin Stillingfleet

#Wise Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.”
“A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.”
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
“The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.”
“BSB are a great bunch of guys, I really like them”
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”

Source : "Remembering Gordon Willis, ASC" by Jon Fauer, www.fdtimes.com. May 20, 2014.
“Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.”

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