#ten

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#dressing #energy #like #pent #snappy

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#i #little #little man #man #me

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#because #difficult #gotten #iran #mixed

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#become #bit #close #close friends #down

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#film #give #i #i think #insulting

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#crisis #disconnect #doing #existential #feel

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#half #i #i think #intense #jobs

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#allow #become #cliche #credits #developed

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#comes #feel #find #funny #humor

True humility is contentment. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#humility #true