Frances McDormand Quotes
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
Frances McDormand
Quotes to Explore
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua
I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
Sam Jaeger
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
Naguib Mahfouz
You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
Cameron Diaz
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. Lawrence
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
Hansika Motwani
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
J. C. Chandor
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
Abigail Washburn
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
J. M. Coetzee
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom
