“If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.” HeartKindResponse Author:Sean Penn
“I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.” ThinkingPainOpportunity Author:Sean Penn
“For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into that story. It seems insanely narcissistic. But I also think there's a particular effect that comes from using my autobiography in service to another story, as opposed to being the subject. I'm much more comfortable working in that mode. And I do think I have a persona or mood that I keep coming back to: self-conscious, self-critical, unsure. I write a lot about bodies, particularly male ones, usually as a point of emphasis for my insecurities about my own.” ThinkingWritingMoodInsecurityAutobiographyPersonaNarcissisticUnsure Author:Lucas Mann
“After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I feel myself pulled back to the same themes, sometimes even the same moments, and I'm not sure that I want that.” ThinkingWritingSometimesMomentsFeelingsNot Sure Author:Lucas Mann
“When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or novel, he shows me something different within the framework he's built - like noticing that there's a chair in the corner I didn't see in another story.” DifferentNovelSceneDialogueAdmireShow MeNoticingMinimalism Author:Jill Talbot
“Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his style, a voice that is singular, and that's what I think writers should strive for, to have a style and a voice that is only theirs.” ThinkingStyleStriveAdmireUrgency Author:Jill Talbot
“We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.” PeopleWorldBookSong Author:Jill Talbot
“I work in the same style as classic landscape photographers. You find the right perspective, and then you wait until the light is right. I do the same. I find the right location, and then I wait for the sound, the atmosphere to be right, and for the space to be revealed.” WaitingStylePerspectivePhotographerAtmosphereClassic Author:Gordon Hempton
“"Acoustic ecologist" is basically a fancy name for someone who tries to become a better listener. Not just listening to those thoughts, ideas, and productions of human intention, but listening to places - whether it's an urban environment, residential, industrial, or even the farthest corner of the world, in one of our last great quiet places where we can listen to the pure sounds of nature without any human-caused noise intrusions.” WorldTryingEnvironmentListeningQuietIntentionUrbanJust ListenQuiet Place Author:Gordon Hempton
“An acoustic ecologist is a listener who is aware that sound is information. It's information because it's created by events, events produce sound, and that sound has all kinds of data, if you will, that conveys what event occurred, what the materials were, whether it was sudden, slow, loud, in what direction. And because it is information, we can think of it as a message. The acoustic ecologist studies information systems that are both intentional and sometimes wild.” ThinkingKindSometimesStudyAll Kinds Author:Gordon Hempton
