"I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day."

-- Terry McMillan

#Reading Quotes #Four Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?”
“He's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.”
“I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because artists work with a combination of intuition and intellect blended together and out comes whatever they produce. So it's a blend of kind of a sensual response to material and an intellectual response to idea, maybe a blend of the two.”
“We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.”
“I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.”
“Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.”
“Perhaps the more "operatic" video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece, I was locked into an idea, and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.”

Source : "Collaborating with Strangers". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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