“I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 163 of 303
“Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.”
“I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.”
“Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical, has blossomed so profusely among us during the last decade, that he should be an expert indeed who ventures to add thereto.”
“I would not want to write something about something I do not think about”
“Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.”
“In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.”
“Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.”
“Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.”
“Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity.”
“Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.”
“So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”
“Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.”
“People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.”
“We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.”
“We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.”
“It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.”
“Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.”
“We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.”
“The older a fool is, the worse he is.”