Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.
You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean.
Difficult questions can have simple answers.
It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool’s errand.
If the universe is infinite, then every possibility must exist in reality, yes?
The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'
It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
I am looking forward to working with Congressman Hobson and Vorys Advisors to help Ohio businesses and organizations achieve their goals and objectives.
Don't confuse honours with achievement.
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to d...
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when...
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
