“I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.” KnowsI CanStoriesActorsMaterialsHollywoodHungry Author:Chris Noth
“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.” KnowsHumansIdeasSoulStatesTogetherMovingPassionIndividualForceImaginationPowerfulMaterialsActivityLogicBoundsJewFactorsFlightNervousManifestationSentimentsConcreteSoleInferiorsInteriorsDeprivedExteriorHuman ActivityExaltationRegulators Author:Kadmi Cohen
“You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.” KnowsEndsPlayFilmKnow HowMaterials Author:Norman Reedus
“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.” KnowsFirstsEndsEnoughCharacterMightLastsFilmCasesPiecesMaterialsSceneFlowScriptsExtremes Author:Jean Stapleton
“I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingWellsTwoPlayShowsSongStuffMaterialsGive MeAlbumsBalancedArchivesRecitals Author:Kate Voegele
“Actually, my friendships are changing because my friends have kids, so that's a new aspect to the material. Not just that I don't want to have kids, it's that I'm having a hard time relating to people I know.” PeopleKnowsWantHardKidsMaterialsMy FriendsAspectHard TimesMy FriendshipHaving A Hard Time Author:Jen Kirkman
“Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensGuySituationGroupsMaterialsSilentSingle Women Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.” PeopleKnowsPlayMightCertainRealizingNumbersAudienceMaterialsDegreesMusic IsOriginalsYeahAvant Garde Author:Archie Shepp
“The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.” KnowsWorldWayRealProblemRealityFormResultsRecordsMaterialsAimCamerasStrivePhotographerChiefsReality Of LifeReal WorldDocumentariesTruthfulness Author:Paul Strand
“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.” ThinkingKnowsUseAgeUsedArtistHouseMaterialsComputerPaintIncrediblesOilCommandRangeHouseholdItemsComputer SystemsPollock Author:Bill Viola
“My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.” IfsKnowsDoeStoriesDifferencesAudienceMaterialsTablesDinnerDinner Table Author:Jackie Mason