#vision

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #because #confident #director #everything

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#advantage #got #make #series #something

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#character #create #end #get #i

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. ↗

— Woody Allen

#bad #imitate #imitates #life #television

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. ↗

— Woody Allen

#beverly #beverly hills #garbage #hills #into

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#appreciate #change #clarity #gradual #here

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. ↗

— Arrian

#alexander #almost #any #close #cruise

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#believe #courage #experience #first #me

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. ↗

— Abdallah II

#dispossessed #division #earth #extremists #global

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#grappling #having #how #i #learning