"A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question."

-- Robert Engman

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“Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through their particular perspective. Walk around the block with them, stroll the rooms they live in, figure out what objects on the cluttered dining room table they would inevitably stare at the longest, and then learn why.”
“Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.”
“Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.12, Open Road Media
“Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.”
“Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.”
“You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind ...”
“If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a Jew from morning to night. We don't even have to think about it, just as a Dutch citizen doesn't spend his whole day thinking about the fact that he is a Dutch citizen. It's a given.”

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