A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I’m writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls. Aleksandar Hemon Read Quote
If you’re setting up lights and tripods, and you’ve got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it’s different. D. A. Pennebaker Read Quote
We’re looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if we do like them, even if we tweet them out to all of our followers on Twitter, we don’t return to it. Robin Sloan Read Quote
People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it’s all a creation; everything is made up. Jo Brand Read Quote
I’ve always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them. John Travolta Read Quote
I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and work inward – another flaw of mine. I seldom approach things directly. I would have made a great moth. Erik Larson Read Quote
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn’t figure out that mathematics of the story first. Brit Marling Read Quote
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they’ll take it. John Roos Read Quote
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov Read Quote
