“I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.” NeedsTryingMeanSaidStoriesUseRealityFilmLanguageDealsPaintingRepresentationTelling Stories Author:Agnes Varda
“My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.” IfsKnowsWorldShouldWritingMeanCharacterHelpingStoriesBodyPoliticalDealsBreakEconomyElementsResearchFunctionBreaking DownStarvingMain Characters Author:Leigh Bardugo
“In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing someone like that, who is also in pain with his kidney stone, means you're beginning to find a dimension of the guy who is king and all show and the private guy who is in pain.” MeanShowsPainLastsGuyDealsKingsDrugStonesInstanceCodeDimensionsBehaviourKidneysRemnantsPlaying SomeoneKidney Stones Author:David Suchet
“You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.” ThinkingKnowsMenMeanBigsFacesDealsEnemyBombsPausesBig DealFace To Face Author:John Travolta
“So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I write in hotel rooms. That's not exactly balancing. Actually, writing in hotel rooms means that I'm refusing to deal with the problem.” WayWritingMeanRealProblemRoomsDealsBalanceDramaPerformancesHotelHotel RoomsLive Performance Author:Philip Glass
“Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.” MeanStatesGovernmentEvilDealsObjectsWeaponsImmoral Book:The Right to Ignore the State Source: The Right to Ignore the State
“Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.” WorldMeanHandsTodayPoliticalSidesDealsSeeingConflictGainsFundamentalsIslamModeratesUpper Hand Author:Zalmay Khalilzad