I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
I do not see how we could have come to know the greatness of God without that hint furnished by the greatness of the material universe.
It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.
We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'-like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags.
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.
Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.
With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.
