"I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling."

-- Len Cariou

#Careers Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Hollywood Quotes

“I'm very interested in clans and the way people group together, and there's a lot of group shots. There's a lot of people in positions that people feel like they're in attack mode, kind of pointed at each other in the frame. I'm not a big fan of shooting something that looks like it could belong in any movie, I'm not a fan of okay, "wide shot, wide shot, medium shot, close-up, close-up, we'll figure it out in post." I hate that.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality -- to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.”
“You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'”
“Ray Charles revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.”
“Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”

Source : A Man for All Seasons act 1 (1960)
“You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.”
“poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.”

Source : Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.56, The Overlook Press

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