"Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Smart Quotes #Character Quotes #Winter Quotes

“Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.”
“It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.”

Source : Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.
“The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, â€œalways the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.”

Source : Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.19, New World Library
“I can watch endless humans get killed, but if I see a movie and they kill a dog, I practically want to walk out.”

Source : "Kristin Bauer: The Lady Is A Vamp". Interview with Jamie Johns, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 8, 2011.
“I donâ€™t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
“When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.”
“it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.39, Northwestern University Press
“When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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