Don DeLillo Quotes
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Quotes to Explore
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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I'm very religious.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
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In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.
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It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.
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We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.
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Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
