"Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work."

-- Ralph Bakshi

#Realizing Quotes #Lord Quotes #Made Quotes

“It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.”
“There was a part of her she hadnâ€™t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place”
“In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now--perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense”

Source : Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.88, 1st World Publishing
“One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.”

Source : Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol. 11, p. 94; also in "The Dictionary of Art", Vol. 28 (1996) by Jane Turner, 1976.
“I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.”
“Yes,â€ I told him. â€œI think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.â€ He stopped where he was. â€œWhat?â€ I asked, frowning at the big smile on his face. â€œI didnâ€™t say I liked the Pirate King,â€ he told me. â€œOh.â€ I closed my eyesâ€”and there he was. A warm, edgy presence right on the edge of my perception. When I opened my eyes, he was standing right in front of me. â€œCool,â€ I told him. â€œYouâ€™re back.â€ He kissed me leisurely. When he was finished, I was more than ready to head home. Fast. â€œYou make me laugh,â€ he told me seriously.”
“We must believe in free will, we have no choice.”

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