#direct

The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written. Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep. He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere. ↗

— Vincent H. O'Neil

#creativity #directing #inspiration #playwriting #theater

If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ? ↗

— Yasmin Ahmad

#change #film #film-director #love #malay

You Never Know A True Friend Until You get Into A Serious Misunderstanding With Him Or Her ↗

— Michael A. Johnson

#dramatic #inspirational #inspirational

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film. ↗

— Gary Ross

#ask #because #course #dialogue #dinner

You will need a heart rather than a map in your journey to the right path. ↗

— Louise Philippe Dulay

#heart #inspiration #inspire #life #path

Don't ask for directions if you're not going to start the car. ↗

— Rob Liano

#advice #directions #guidance #inspiration #procrastination

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#break #cable #difficult #directors #easier

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

If there is no direct threat why are we invading? ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#invading #threat #why