George Stevens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.
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I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
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There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.
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To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.
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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
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I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
