Yoshio Taniguchi Quotes
When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
Quotes to Explore
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
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Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.
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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.
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When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
