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"Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject."
"I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we try to take back the web or start something new because, you know, the dominant medium of our time is in a desperate state and it doesn't have to be like that."
"I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems."
"Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there."
"A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves."
"The cool thing about making a Western is that people want to be in them. You rarely get the opportunity. With horror movies you are always trying to convince them. People in horror are always worried it's going to be this schlocky thing, and you're always trying to convince them that it's not. With Westerns, people immediately react with, "Oh, I've always wanted to do one.""
"When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another."
"Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing."
"In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks."
"I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors."
"The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world."
"Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out."
"When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done"
"I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team."
"Malcolm Turnbull got a majority in the parliament that he is trying to ignore and lock his own members of parliament into positions that they don't hold, and sometimes into positions that we know he doesn't hold. It's no wonder the public's started turning on him."
"When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset."
"Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives."
"Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best."
"The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts."
"For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still trying to get that song out. I'm getting closer, every record I get a little bit closer to saying it the way I want to say it."
