#com

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#because #disappointment #expectations #great #high

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#creation #dark #darkness #i #intrigued

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment? ↗

— Famke Janssen

#body needs #boxed #comedy #drama #everybody

Ideas come through us, not from us. ↗

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

#ideas #through #us

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#contact #dharma #had #i #inspired

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#buddhist #chamber #commission #discovered #got

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#commerce #friendship #honest #nations #none

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#beautiful #comes #davis #forms #i

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#decide #foolish #me #philosopher #poet