"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Events Quotes #Details Quotes #Littles Quotes

“You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.”
“But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times.”
“Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.”
“I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.”
“The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.”
“I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.”
“One of the great things about the longer you do a character, the more the writers start to understand your kind of character ticks and things that you like to do. The most exciting thing I think for a writer is when the characters just start speaking for themselves. You sit down at your keyboard and just stuff starts jumping out of their mouths. They just sort of wrote the scripts for themselves.”
“Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.”

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