"You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you get precious about what you've written. You've got to open up and let the actors in, and re-conceive a lot of things."

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Source : Source: film.avclub.com

Joel Schumacher

“Man is remembered by his deeds.”
“When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.”
“I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2010.
“The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.”
“You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to a medium that you can share with others.”
“Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.”
“With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.”

Source : Joe Orton (2013). “Entertaining Mr Sloane”, p.9, A&C Black
“It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.”

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