"Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, itâ€™s all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit to people, to the actors, to the crew. Itâ€™s peculiar. Thereâ€™s a Chinese saying: â€œThe first part that rots is the head.â€ It really does. Iâ€™ve seen it."

-- Thomas Bidegain

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“What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.”
“My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage.”
“Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.”
“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
“I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.”

Source : "Stand-up comics try to stand out on TV" by Sherri Sylvester, www.cnn.com. August 13, 1999.
“I do a lot of pivoting. There was one cover I did of Donald Trump, after he won Iowa, it seemed like it was over for him at the beginning of the primary process. I was given the go-ahead on it right away. I drew it and he won the next primary, and suddenly, the cover didn't make any sense. And then, after the Democratic National Convention, it seemed like he was finished, Hillary Clinton seemed to be gaining strength, so the cover ran then. So it seemed like you can come up with an idea and it can be rendered useless two days later and then all of a sudden it's relevant again.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.”
“There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors”

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