"I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible."

-- Spike Jonze

#Character Quotes #Trying Quotes #Film Quotes

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
“Why did you do it?" I say. "You want me dead. You were willing to do it yourself! What changed?" He presses his lips together and doesn't look away, not for a long time. Then he opens his mouth, hesitates, and finally says, " I can't be in anyone's debt. Okay? The idea that I owed you something made me sick. I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I was going to vomit. Indebted to a stiff? It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And I couldn't have it.”
“When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.”
“An actor always goes to the safe side.”
“The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.142
“Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2011). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.24, Hachette UK
“I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.”

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