“If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 170 of 303
“Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.”
“The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.”
“Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something.”
“I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.”
“Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.”
“Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.”
“Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.”
“To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.”
“I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief”
“Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”
“I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.”
“Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.”
“I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aesthetics more often than not informs her presentation of self and yet still acknowledge her beauty.”
“Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.”
“I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.”
“Interviewers have to be work really hard to be good. They¹re more inclined to be bad. Generally, they can go either way, but interviewing on a whole isn¹t such a useful thing. I¹m not a big fan of (interviews), really.”
“I think that I work hard to make my music as a diary for new generations who find out about it years later. They can go through the history and see a trail. It's straight and narrow, you can see the growth and understand that I'm not afraid to give you honesty and be honest about anything that has to do with my story.”
“Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.”
“Mediocrity is contextual.”