Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.
I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.
