Material Quotes
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Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
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My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.
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The material world will always attract a lot of women. A lot of people would be down for that, whatever the cost.
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Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.
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As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.
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I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!
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You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
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I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.
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I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.
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On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
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I mean, I think there were a couple factors. I think that they were judging me and I was one of the few people to do any dark material. And that may have made me stick out a little bit more. I don’t think it was that edgy or crazy of material.
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Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
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I may not like the material, but I'm still a trouper.
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Where the material ends, art begins.
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A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.
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I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.
