#thing

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#death #go #grind #i #look

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#become #else #i #like #me

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#heard #household #i #influences #things

And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet. ↗

— John Sayles

#develop #feet #first #get #going

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me. ↗

— John Sayles

#book #books #came #certainly #down

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente. ↗

— John Sayles

#being #grew #i #know #learned

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. ↗

— John Sayles

#know #really #screenwriter #stories #such

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents. ↗

— John Sayles

#come #direct #get #going #logistical

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough. ↗

— John Sayles

#acting #because #changes #character #got

Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative. ↗

— John Sayles

#because #especially #four #fun #going