"Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven."

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Sofia Coppola

#Design Quotes #Acting Quotes #Driven Quotes

“I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.”
“All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.”
“My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.”

Source : Faye Dunaway, Betsy Sharkey (1998). “Looking for Gatsby”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.”
“Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.”
“Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.”
“Now when I get auditions, I choose to believe that I am an amazing actor.”
“New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.”

Source : Robert Graves (2015). “The Complete Poems”, p.120, Penguin UK

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