"It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!"

-- Thomas Mann

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“All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.”
“Even before the economic crisis in Greece there was no structure for making films - no proper industry, and the structure didn't help filmmakers at all. So filmmakers had to help each other, and make very, very low-budget films. Now with the crisis, things got a bit worse, but filmmakers are still going to be making films. It didn't change that much.”
“Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the soul.”
“I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.”
“He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.”
“It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.”
“When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.”
“Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.”

Source : "J.J. Abrams on The End of 'Fringe,' 'Revolution' & Star Trek Into Darkness". Interview with Fred Topel, www.mandatory.com. January 12, 2013.

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