#rot

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#brothers #families #films #gradually #happened

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#conservative #democratic #deserve #during #flames

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#charlie #charlie chaplin #comedies #ever #funny

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one. ↗

— Method Man

#around #best #came #dustin #script

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants. ↗

— David Mamet

#always #comes #does #down #drama

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#brought #glad #i #i am #joy

We became the songs we wrote. ↗

— Barry Mann

#songs #wrote

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. ↗

— Barry Mann

#catalog #go #great #i #looked

That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#first #love #experience