The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.
P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.
The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now
A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.
I hold a dramatic and romantic concept of life; What doesn't touch my senses means nothing to me
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
