"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."

-- Oliver Stone

#Directors Quotes #Looks Quotes #Process Quotes

“I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.”
“Moments. All gathering towards this one.”
“When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever”

Source : Tobias Wolff (1989). “This boy's life”
“I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.”

Source : Source: atticusreview.org
“The kind of churches we played in, it wasn't about how good you could play your instrument, it was about how much you enjoyed playing your instrument.”
“A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.”
“We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.”
“I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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