#ere

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#coherent #doubtless #enacted #end #eye

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#dangerous #fog #laboratories #lecture #libraries

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#ever #frankly #greatest #here #i

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#creating #desperate #desperation #ingredient #interesting

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#get #hanks #his #me #nice

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#actually #angry #defend #doing #getting

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#go #i #life #my life #truman

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#fond #fond memories #give #i #interesting

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#audience #dangerous #i #i write #interests