A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. Stanley Kubrick Read Quote
That’s always the most productive research – research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration. Jonathan Dee Read Quote
I write sentence to sentence. That’s the kind of writer I am. I don’t have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised. Lorraine Adams Read Quote
I think that a lot of people I’m close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home… You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me. Louisa Hall Read Quote
I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I’m trying to say and I’ll think about that for a couple of days until it’s all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it’ll just fall out. But the song’s kind of all ready there in my head. Graham Russell Read Quote
When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that’s a little too young. I didn’t have a whole lot of life experience to draw on. Steve Buscemi Read Quote
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. George Burns Read Quote
My old modus operandi was, if you’re going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don’t have one, have two. If you’re going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box. Al Roker Read Quote