"In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld."

-- Charles Keating, Jr.

#Television Quotes #Film Quotes

“Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.”
“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”
“The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.”
“in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.”
“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.”
“Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.”
“Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.”
“As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.”

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