“When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written. But with the multi-camera digital setup, you're getting both sides of the scene at the same time, so it gives you that freedom to go off-book.” GivingImportantBookLightFilmSidesWrittenSceneOppositesCamerasSticksDigitalAngleBoth SidesSetups Author:Chris Pratt
“Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.” StillsSeemsActorsPartyAliveWrittenProveOppositesThirdsSillyCorpsesDressed UpThird Parties Author:Antony Sher
“Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.” ShouldWritingWrittenOppositesRoutineWritten Word Author:Elie Wiesel
“But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.” PeopleCharacterStoriesJobsLife IsCertainMillionsWrittenYouthOppositesSingersFarmersOperaRegimesKoreaRest Of Your LifeNorth KoreaFishermanKimAptitudeOpera SingersOpera Singing Author:Adam Johnson
“I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.” ThinkingFilmWrittenTelevisionOppositesSeries Author:Bryan Cranston
“You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on their head so that they mean exactly the opposite of what they are written down. There are endless possibilities which I think Diamanda Galás is doing already. She turns everything upside down by the way she sings it. She makes you feel nauseous or horrified or ridiculous just by her voice. I think that's an incredible power.” ThinkingWayFeelsMeanTurnsVoiceWrittenPossibilityOppositesIncrediblesRidiculousEndlessAggressiveUpside DownGalsEndless Possibilities Author:PJ Harvey
“I got a part opposite Edward G. Robinson in a play called Middle of The Night, which Paddy Cheyafsky had written. It played for a long time because everybody just loved Edward G. Robinson, everybody in New York wanted to see it. John and I were married at the time and put into a position where I was working very long evening hours and he was working in the daytime and so there was a lot of spare time.” LongPlayWantedNightHoursWrittenMiddleNew YorkPositionMarriedLong TimeOppositesEveningSparesMiddle Of The NightDaytimeSpare TimePaddy Author:Gena Rowlands
“I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.” IfsFeltGoalStepsClearWrittenNeededOppositesAccountsWingsSettingSettingsReasoningSetting GoalsOverachieverWritten Goals Author:Edwina Findley
“In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.” YearsArtPastCareersWrittenBloodOppositesTrackPainfulAlbumsDivorceProofPrimeBobGreat ArtDylanYears Past Author:Bob Dylan
“I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.” WayKindActionExistenceWrittenProductsPerspectiveEssentialsEssenceOppositesArguingOne WayExistentialist Author:Zadie Smith
“The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.” FeelsSongWrittenEffectsEqualOppositesVulnerableConfused Author:Alanis Morissette
“[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.” MayTwoLife IsSidesMy OwnPerfectWrittenTerribleOppositesComicTwo ThingsCoins Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.” ShouldFirstsWellsArtEndsPlayLastsEvilForceActingQualityPrinciplesPiecesWrittenBattleOppositesStructureRageDrivingPrimariesImpulseGood And EvilPlotSectionsDriving ForceWell Written Author:Michael Chekhov
“[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.” LittlesRealityHistoryWrittenFitOppositesCaptureMessy Book:Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Source: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America