#ma

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#angeles #disadvantage #everyone #facilities #great

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#admirable #being #cinema #enjoy #fact

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#act #around #caring #compliment #ear

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#connection #differentiate #educators #learning #many

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#creates #destroys #lie #love #love always

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#marriage #relationships #beauty

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#coen #directors #everyone #feel #film

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#body talks #came #character #city #him

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#i #matter #myself #part #percent

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#both #course #father #life #like