"I don't really pity any of my characters. I hold my characters under a harsh fluorescent lamp and ask "Who are you?" I'm not doing their makeup or giving them hairdos. They present themselves to me as they are and then I let them say what they want. Usually they're saying something too honest."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Character Quotes #Makeup Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”

Source : George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.135, MIT Press
“I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.”
“Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.”
“I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.”
“All I ever hoped for was freedom of choice and to not have to just do work because I needed to pay the bills. If you can, weave your way into a studio in a situation where it's supportive of the other work you wanna do. Also, there is caliber and weight in studio films, and I think the ideal is to get that balance right: Do a studio film, go away and do something that is smaller.”

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“The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.”
“Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway”
“You either are a good director or you're not.”

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