You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy.
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well. I'd love to be able to do a mixture.
Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.
One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.
A dream? With you, reality is always as a dream. There is no greater fantasy, no grander epic, than being with you.
No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.
Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
In this life at least, Our fate is rarely epic. Maybe just as well, Impervious heroes we are not…
It's a cliche to say this now, but to me, 'The Sopranos' is like Dickens. It's able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.
The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.
To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
