“All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.” MenTryingLastsCommonMistakePiecesSubjectsPeriodsElementsStandardsStartingPhilosopherContemporaryConclusionAnalysisFixedPassiveTestimonyResortsStarting Point Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.” MemoriesMy OwnPiecesPeriodsConsciousKillingVagueReally Weird Author:Cynthia Nixon
“Everything has been for the [President] election for the last couple of months. Since the Democratic National Convention, it's been a dead run to get out as much content as possible and do as much as possible. Then, I go back to writing the screenplay I was working on, which is an original piece - a period piece that I will hopefully finish a couple of months after that, and hopefully I can convince some unsuspecting fool studio to buy.” WritingHas BeensI CanRunningLastsPresidentPiecesFoolMonthsCouplePeriodsOriginalsElectionDemocraticStudiosHopefullyConvinceConventionsScreenplaysUnsuspecting Author:Joss Whedon
“I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way.” WayShouldKindLittlesWholeSeemsPiecesPeriodsJacketsWardrobeCloaksHipsterBeatnikTurtlenecksOlafCount Olaf Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingCharacterForgetPiecesPeriodsContemporaryThings To Do Author:Steven Knight