#met

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#lines #revealing #sit #something #unusual

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. ↗

— Joel Coen

#characters #condescending #funny #funny thing #i

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere. ↗

— Joel Coen

#anywhere #bit #clear #get #little

If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination. ↗

— Phil Collins

#album #although #been #combination #davis

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#become #effective #emissions #epa #introduced

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#most #need #people #sometimes #stress

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#cemetery #got #like #listening #lot

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer. ↗

— Joel Coen

#bit #different #down #employer #expectations

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#compassionate #conservatism #desire #faith #faith-based