#ra

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#any #ashamed #asked #best #david

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#chaplin #cinema #context #elevated #extraordinary

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#character #costumes #does #establish #first

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#everybody #had #having #i #leotards

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#characters #cutting #feet #fit #i

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#ago #found #fundamentals #got #grammar

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#connected #could #draw #early #i

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#clear #come #complicated #fight #life

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#country music #growing #growing up #love #music

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#feeling #good #opera #people #plot