Ben Lerner Quotes

The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.

Ben Lerner

Quotes to Explore

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

Vincent Cassel
- Thinking
- Drama
- New York
Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

Jack Kevorkian
- God
- Process
- Doctor
People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

Valerie Jarrett
- People
- Trying
- Looking
I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

Gaby Hoffmann
I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

Vijay Sethupathi
- Art
- Training
- Gift
It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

Dana Brunetti
- People
- Good
- Attention