#out

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.' ↗

— John Sayles

#american #american media #doing #during #election

You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing. ↗

— John Sayles

#choices #comes #costume #designer #get

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old. ↗

— John Sayles

#acting #cheap #guild #happened #i

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#become #element #fantasies #few #film

I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#america #care #i #i care #i do

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#because #consequences #desire #disagree #i

I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#bin #came #enhanced #fact #found

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#case #desire #done #easiest #easiest way

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#communication #essentially #illusion #imagine #incidental

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#likely #more #more and more #received #resentment