That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. Lynn Abbey Read Quote
I’ve been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they’re loath to do that because they think if it’s a documentary it has to be deadly serious – it has to be like medicine that you’re supposed to take. And I think it’s what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries. Michael Moore Read Quote
Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn’t like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next. Rob Sheffield Read Quote
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since. Jarrett J. Krosoczka Read Quote
South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn’t find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K. Richard Stanley Read Quote
My style can’t be held within a pixel medium. Like, it needs to be performed in a living, breathing space. People need to have all their senses ready to take on my comedy, and unfortunately, TV alienates at least their sense of touch, taste, smell. Kristen Schaal Read Quote
Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain. Sebastian Seung Read Quote
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. Laurie Anderson Read Quote
You can’t ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you’re going to live your life like I have. Kiefer Sutherland Read Quote
