#tin

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

— Method Man

#around #best #came #dustin #script

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #coming #could #day #drawback

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

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now. ↗

— Method Man

#def #floating #jam #now #offices

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

#affirms #after #ambivalence #both #cannot

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#believe #book #class #class struggle #closed

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#bobby #how #i #idea #involved

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#combine #continent #deserts #dream #efforts