#we

I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#cope #difficult #every #exactly #few

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#dream #go #i #if i could #myself

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#always #amount #because #discover #discovered

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. ↗

— George Orwell

#dickens #stealing #those #well #who

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#helen #i #known #louis #morris

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#ancient #brain #eat #eats #everything

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#between #choice #chose #despair #existential

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#actually #being #documentaries #documentary #dramas

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. ↗

— Charles Olson

#head #i #i was born #sorry #towel

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. ↗

— Malcom X

#control #earth #entity #guilty #innocent