“I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.” KindMeanCertainMy OwnNovelMaterialsDirectorsExcitedGenreSomedayConventions Author:Todd Solondz
“When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint.” MeanMatterOpportunityChallengesSubjectsStyleMaterialsAvailableChosenPainterConventionsRestraintSubject Matter Book:Sense of Sight Source: Sense of Sight
“From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.” MeanDoeArtRealityDealsClassStudyExampleAspectPsychologicalInternalsConventionsTotality Book:Collected Works: Do what you will Source: Collected Works: Do what you will