#art

I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#get #god #hamlet #here #i

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking. ↗

— Mark Boal

#came #concrete #could #dust #guard

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#because #extraordinary #huge #in the past #multitude

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots. ↗

— Mark Boal

#after #alert #alien #always #around

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party. ↗

— Franz Boas

#antipathy #barriers #down #enough #feeling

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. ↗

— Don Bluth

#artistic #awry #business #decisions #executives

Translation is the art of failure. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#failure #translation

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#books #curious #died #even #grandfather

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in. ↗

— Don Bluth

#back #bottom #get #i #i think

I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure. ↗

— Don Bluth

#action #adventure #also #blend #different