My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. Jacques Derrida Read Quote
My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way. Anna Faris Read Quote
We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death. Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It’s been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it’s a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us. Joanna Scott Read Quote
My favourite emails are along the lines of, ‘My 14-year-old doesn’t read much, but I gave him your book and he finished it in two days.’ This has been the most rewarding experience. Anh Do Read Quote
When you’re making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever. Hari Nef Read Quote
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. Hans Hofmann Read Quote
I’m the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll sideman. But that doesn’t mean a ‘sideman’ isn’t vital. Michael Anthony Read Quote
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective – on history, on crime, on art, on love. John Edgar Wideman Read Quote
