#making

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. ↗

— William James

#catch #character #darker #directly #done

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. ↗

— John Eaton

#composers #expecting #follow #get #i

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#itself #making #philosophy #suicide

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#creating #even #feel #fiction #filmmaking

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#granting #i #i think #interviews #making

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#been #comeback #ever #i #making

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor. ↗

— John Hurt

#dangerous #distributor #films #find #go

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#i #like #linux #making #never

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ↗

— Henry Ford

#better #bothers #business #competitor #feared

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#art #audience #because #care #claim