“Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.” KnowsMenGodKnow HowCrazyCreatingMadnessMadQuittingInsaneInsanityDozenRenaissanceCrazy PeopleMad MenMaggotsCreating New Things Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.” KnowsLooksMeanLongHardCharacterKnow HowAwarenessShapesCreatingRomanticMake SensePuzzlesFiguring It Author:Nancy Meyers
“The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.” KnowsTryingYearsRealGuyHoursBrainKnow HowDoubtWeekTalentTelevisionGoes OnCreatingScientistCancerFiftyTobaccoReal Talent Author:Robert Kenner
“I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character.” KnowsEnoughPlayCharacterActorsActingKnow HowCreatingEducatedNot Interested Author:Corey Stoll
“Mom's a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much thought goes into creating a role, so I'm always interested to find out what was the thought process of the writer and how best can I convey it rather than trying to change it to suit myself.” KnowsTryingRealReadingProcessRolesKnow HowGrewMomCreatingGrew UpScriptsSuitsTrying To ChangeThought Process Author:Naomie Harris
“If it were possible to hold onto this sort of database and really be assured that only good guys get access to it, we might have a different discussion. Unfortunately, we don't know how to build systems that work that way. We don't know how to do this without creating a big target and a big vulnerability.” IfsKnowsWayDifferentBigsMightGuyKnow HowCreatingAccessDiscussionVulnerabilityTargetAssuredGood GuyDatabases Author:Matt Blaze
“The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother.” ThinkingKnowsKidsMotherActorsFatherKnow HowGenerationsCreatingCategoriesWelshHawaiiansCensusCensus Bureau Author:Richard Rodriguez
“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.” KnowsCharacterStoriesOrderFictionKnow HowPoetCreatingStructureDevelopingNarrativeFiction WritersNarrative Structure Author:Edward Hirsch
“I think the contrast between these two in the professional world of cinema mattered to me. One who has reached the ultimate point of being a star, who knows how to do everything very well, facing another person who would throughout the making of the film transfer his anxiety to both of us, to me and to Juliette, as to whether or not he would be capable of fulfilling his role. This in itself created a challenge that was actually very good for me, since I hadn't ever counterposed two such performers before, creating that challenge between someone who knows their part and someone who doesn't.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWellsPersonsTwoWould BeFilmStarsChallengesRolesKnow HowAnxietyCreatingCapableUltimateVery GoodCinemaPerformersContrastFulfillingTransfers Author:Abbas Kiarostami