If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.
I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.
Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.
I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.
I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.
I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.
I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.'
I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
If you cannot piece someone else's heart back to its original condition, don't dare to break it.
I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.
She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
