"History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials.""

-- Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

#Character Quotes #History Quotes #Important Quotes

“Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'”
“My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.”
“Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.”

Source : "Bad Signal". Comic book by Warren Ellis, 2003.
“The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.”
“I was a coward. I'm still such a coward.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.”

Source : "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.
“There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor”
“The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.”

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