"Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself."

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Source : Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (1987). “Rashomon”, p.122, Rutgers University Press

Akira Kurosawa

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“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.”
“Love is scary, like anything else, whether you're falling in love, whether you're discovering love in something else...if you're really going to jump off the cliff, when you meet somebody that you love you're going to jump off that cliff, you've got to give them everything. And when you have a kid, it's on a much greater level.”
“When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.494, Open Road Media
“It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me when I first started and they still don't today.”
“I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.”

Source : "Alexander Siddig Is Part of Julian Schnabel’s Latest Cinematic Canvas". Interview with Ashley Wren Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.
“So I tried to activate my glutes as best I could, in between, but...they never stayed activated.”
“Marshall McLuhan prediction was some kind of electronic communication technology would emerge to instantaneously connect the world so much so that the whole globe would be like a village.”
“Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.”

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