“With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.” Quote by Werner Herzog
“British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.” ThinkingRealizingCreativePressesBritishCreative Work Author:John Cleese
“On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.” GivingWritingLastsActorsChancePeriodsGive MeScriptsCastsCome UpRehearsalGive Me A Chance Author:John Cleese
“When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.” PeopleGivingReasonReadingHoursLinesSimpleWonderfulStudiosSensitiveFriendlyGood FriendRehearsalTolerable Author:John Cleese
“Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.” FirstsSecurityMusic IsMediumsBlanket Author:Yoko Ono
“When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.” WritingYearsSchoolMotherSoundPerfectTaughtHarmonyNotesMusicalNoiseHomeworkTransfersMusic EducationMusical Notes Author:Yoko Ono
“I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.” ThinkingKnowsImportantSimpleMessagesHarmonyCommunicateBreatheBreathing Author:Yoko Ono
“I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.” ThinkingTryingKindUseCertainSimpleDivineAmbitionHarmonyComplexesRhythmAlways Trying Author:Yoko Ono
“Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.” PeopleWorldTryingInterestingCasesStyleRepeatsNervesAwardsMedalScratches Author:Yoko Ono
“Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.” BodyEnjoySecretMeditationSittingMusclesRelaxRelaxationSpine Author:Nhat Hanh
“I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.” WantWritingKindSometimesPerfectTendenciesLogicalBe Kind Author:John Cleese