“The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be fully engaged in the character's experience. What does this mean to them? How are they changed by it, or not? I remember being a little nervous, as I am when writing any high-stakes, intense scene (death, sex, grief, joy).”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 178 of 303
“Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.”
“A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.”
“It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.”
“Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.”
“when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.”
“Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.”
“Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.”
“I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.”
“Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.”
“It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.”
“Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.”
“I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.”
“A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.”
“It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.”
“Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.”
“One moment cannot be the most important.”
“I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.”
“The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.”
“In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.”