#material

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #both #certain #conventions #directors

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#diseases #fear #ideologies #interest #material

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#against #assault #asset #been #essential

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#former #likely #materials #nuclear #seeking

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show. ↗

— Davy Jones

#get #i #material #order #show

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#chance #had #homicide #i #material

I do like directing other people's material. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#i #i do #like #material #other

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#consumption #finite #growth #impossibility #infinite

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#comedy #darker #drawn #get #i