The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.
Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
I actually don't have a view on whether someone watching certain material that may be legal in some places, but might be obscene to somebody else, can trigger a violent streak in someone.
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.
Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.
Don't complicate your life by surrounding yourself with people who see life as a competition about who has the most material possessions.
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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.
