"I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie."

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Martin Short

“You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.”
“My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.”

Source : "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.
“When I get bored, I get into trouble.”
“Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.”
“If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.”

Source : "John Hawkes: 'I play nerds, psychos ... psycho-nerds'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.
“It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.”
“... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?”
“Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.”

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