"Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of have to just set everything else aside - it's like suddenly getting a temp job that requires you to work 16-hour days. Also just aesthetically, you have to completely leave all of your ego out of it."

-- Owen Pallett

#Writing Quotes #Ego Quotes #Different Quotes

“I don't think there's any accidents in my life.”
“June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.”
“What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.”
“Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I donâ€™t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything weâ€™d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--itâ€™s very interesting. It still holds up, and itâ€™s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.”
“Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.”
“A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”

Source : Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA
“Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.”

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