I don’t consciously sit down thinking I’m blurring genre lines, for the most part. I try to stay focused solely on serving the needs of the particular story on which I’m working. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it’s where the TV industry is created and there’s a lot of work that goes into development. Jason Gann Read Quote
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It’s such a powerful force. Danny Boyle Read Quote
When I’m in Hyderabad I love going to the multiplexes to watch movies or party with friends, but that’s after I’ve grown to love this city. When I first came here I thought ‘Aiyyo why in the world did I land here!’ Priyamani Read Quote
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what’s going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples’ attention simply by having things move forward in a story. Ira Glass Read Quote
I love performing. I love getting out there. It’s kind of like why I make music. Yasmine Hamdan Read Quote
I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil Ford and Mike O’Koren in 1976. Jeff Van Gundy Read Quote
I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process – who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they’re ready to share. Joe Mantello Read Quote
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. Bill Ayers Read Quote
