"I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life."

-- Eric Rohmer

#Thinking Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Ordinary Things Quotes

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.50, New Directions Publishing
“Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?”
“I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.”
“Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.”
“I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Christian Meyer, Therese Muxeneder, Arnold Schönberg Center (2005). “Arnold Schönberg: catalogue raisonné”
“Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.”
“I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.”
“The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.”

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