“I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical.” KindIdeasPagesConceptsOriginalsBoredGenreRemakesOriginal Ideas Author:Nina Dobrev
“We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.” TryingPagesConceptsTheaterCustomersVarietyAdsApologizingControversyDeanJerry Author:Norman Lear
“It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission statement or a basic spine that represents the theme or the concept that you've agreed on, and writing partners are great for that because you can sit there until you get it.” WayWritingSometimesPagesConceptsMissionsFocusedPartnersStatementsThemeSpineMission Statement Author:Shane Black
“Chicago theater vs. New York theater. There's just nothing to say about it really. If you've seen Chicago theater, you know that the work is true to what is there on the page. It's not trying to present itself with some sort of flashy, concept-based thing. It's about the work, and it's about the acting you're about to watch. So acting-based theater feels like it was born there to me.” IfsKnowsFeelsTryingBornActingWatchesNew YorkPagesConceptsTheaterChicagoFlashy Author:Terry Kinney
“I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.” SchoolChurchGrewGrew UpPagesHigh SchoolConceptsAbstractTemplesConcentrationSuburbsAnti SemitismBaltimoreYearbookJewish FamilyHigh School Yearbook Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.” MindUseReadingForceImaginationReaderExercisePagesConceptsLettersSentencesPrintedActivateMind Reading Author:Benjamin Carson