“I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.” TryingRealDoneFilmActorsEnvironmentApproachCastsAuthenticityExploringShort Films Author:Tom Green
“It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.” HardMoralGroupsStudentsCollegeAuthorityBeerCollege StudentsMoral Authority Author:Tom Green
“I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.” ThinkingSchoolEnergyCrowdsEnjoyedPublic Speaking Author:Tom Green
“I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.” RealKidsPassionAttentionLaughingStageAdultsPerformingBugsGoofy Author:Tom Green
“I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'” ThinkingMindKindTwoIdeasDifferentReasonFactsAbleTermLinesNegativeCapabilityDichotomyDifferent Ideas Author:Anne Waldman
“I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.” KindRealCountryTermVisionLandFindingsImmigrantsLiteralMigrationInvokePromised LandDiaspora Author:Anne Waldman
“Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.” KnowsWayTogetherKnownBeatsOriginalsEthos Author:Anne Waldman
“In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting to go below the border and wanting to get to these other places or interstices of the culture where you were encountering the realities of these other kinds of cultures, experiences, language, I think of jazz culture of course.” ThinkingWorldYearsKindRealityCultureCoursesLanguageTwentiesJazzBordersInvoke Author:Anne Waldman
“I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.” IfsWritingFoundHonestPaidBeing HonestFortunate Author:Christopher Paul Curtis
“It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.” IdeasWholeLanguageTermRichActiveTropes Author:Anne Waldman
