"For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time."

-- Cliff Martinez

#Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Waste Quotes

“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
“Large like the Beatles, ask all my peoples, never make movies, so don't talk sequels.”
“It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.”

Source : "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.
“Perhaps there will come a time when... an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood... and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.”

Source : "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.
“I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have friends that are Australian that have told me all about it. I want to do comedy there.”
“dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.”
“I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like, "Uh, I don't know..."”
“Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.”

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