"How many things are there which I do not want."

-- Socrates

#Simple Quotes #Want Quotes

“We're all so jaded. We've seen so many movies. We know what's going to happen in every single movie. I mean, there are some movies where I'm like why do I even need to keep watching? And so, if you can make a movie in which you're completely surprising the audience left and right, and left and right, then you've won. If a jaded film critic or reporter or an audience is like, "I didn't see that one coming," that to me is like a victory.”
“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”
“We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.”
“Erm, I don't really have any regrets.”
“Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.”
“your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”
“There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.”
“Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.”

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