As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.
Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.
It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.
She is but one small speck in a cosmos that is forever changing, and one’s position in the world can be only measured by the experiences of an unbridled life that is personal, and beautiful, and hers.
His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.
Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.
In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.
I'm going to be honest with you. I don't want to sit here all night making small talk when all I want to do is kiss you.
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.
It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.
Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later.
I sell sex by the coffee cup. I don’t go by small, medium, or large, I go by deep, deeper, and deepest.
The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
Melons. The girls. Gazongas. I could rattle off every nickname in the world for my boobs – oops nearly forgot jubblies – but it didn’t change the fact they were small.
