#akin

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#by the time #camera #character #film #front

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun. ↗

— Jude Law

#effort #event #fun #getting #looking

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#cartoon #going #make #making #musical

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#decisions #done #had #i #lot

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning. ↗

— Ang Lee

#advanced #animated #baby #beginning #in the beginning

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. ↗

— Ang Lee

#comedy #cynicism #i #looking #making

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person. ↗

— Ang Lee

#filmmaking #films #history #i #incredible

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. ↗

— Ang Lee

#american movies #apply #big #chinese #film-making

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world. ↗

— Ang Lee

#movies #myself #understanding #way #world