#mma

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#belong #commas #detest #found #gave

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking. ↗

— Richard Donner

#couple #did #filmmaking #films #horns

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#i #practical #thing #very

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#different #different thing #directing #feel #filmmaker

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#filmmakers #first #i #know #lot

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. ↗

— Libba Bray

#boarding-schools #gemma-doyle #humor #libba-bray #beauty

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ↗

— Richard Chenevix Trench

#grammar #logic #reason #speech

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#artists #imitate #immature #mature #steal