“We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantTryingIdeasStoriesBrainOur LivesProjectsOrganizedOrganizePeople In Our Lives Author:Charlie Kaufman
“It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.” TryingLongMightTogetherEasyCasesCreativeProjectsLong TimeDo The Best Author:Kate Bush
“Between pets, comedy and toys, I try to surround myself with as much fun stuff as I can. That's how I pick projects. It's about whether I'm going to enjoy myself, enjoy the other actors, and enjoy the other people that I'm working with.” PeopleTryingI CanActorsFunStuffEnjoyComedyProjectsPicksPetSurroundToysFun Stuff Author:Eric Stonestreet
“I'm really focused on These Days and I'm trying to take it as far as I can - I feel like it's a strong body of work. I just want to give it the ame kind of attention I give all my projects.” WantGivingFeelsTryingKindI CanBodyStrongAttentionProjectsFocusedThese Days Author:Ab-Soul
“I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.” GivingTryingPlayHappensEyeGamesNamesFitGiving UpProjectsDecidedTownsSouthStuckMoodAwfulMapsPensSouth AfricaFrustratedResortsTropicalIdyllic Author:St. Lucia
“I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.” GivingTryingPoliticalFightingFoundUnderstandingEmotionalProjectsRootsHistoricalSpreadLegacyOverwhelmingDay To DayViciousScopeVacuumsDiligentManageableTentacles Author:Ava DuVernay
“I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with black figures and black pigment, it's even harder because I have to be more responsible for the image. I try to be really careful about the presence the figure projects.” TryingStillsHardUseBlackLevelsFiguresPaintingSucceedProjectsHarderResponsibleCarefulPigment Author:Kerry James Marshall
“With The Help, I knew folks involved in the project peripherally. I wanted to audition for Hilly Holbrook and part of the initial feedback was: "No, Bryce is too nice." That's part of the reason why I really love auditions as well - you get to try out a character and try out different versions of a character.” TryingWellsDifferentReasonCharacterHelpingWantedNiceInvolvedProjectsFolksVersionsReason WhyAuditionsFeedbackInitialsToo Nice Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“I still had the same frustration with trying to play [Edward Cullen], the entire way through, right up until the last shot. It's a strange part because, on the one hand, a lot of the audience projects their idea of Edward[Cullen] onto him. It doesn't matter what he is. They want him to be a certain way. And then, my instincts were to try and play it and to try to find the fallibility in him and the weaknesses.” WayWantTryingStillsIdeasMatterPlayHandsLastsCertainAudienceStrangeProjectsWeaknessShotsInstinctFrustrationWant HimFallibility Author:Robert Pattinson
“When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive the blogosphere. It would drive the projects the kids do in school. So you wouldn't even need programs to try and stimulate curiosity. You wouldn't need programs to try to convince people that science literacy is good. Because they're going to want to participate on this epic adventure that we call space exploration.” PeopleWantNeedsTryingKidsTodaySchoolSpaceAdventureProjectsDiscoveryProgramProfoundCuriosityDialogueConvinceExplorationEpicLiteracyHeadlinesSpace ExplorationNasaScience Literacy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I love interacting the fans and try to answer questions that people have. And I love when people are excited about projects, so. I am just a tweet away.” PeopleTryingAnswersFansProjectsExcitedTweetInteracting Author:Dan Amboyer
“I love the construction process and it is always important because we try to experiment and do something new, so the builders are not copying any technique from other projects. Everything is innovative and so I need to be there and be attentive to make sure everything is running smoothly.” NeedsTryingImportantRunningProcessProjectsTechniqueExperimentsSomething NewConstructionInnovativeBuilderCopying Author:Santiago Calatrava
“We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?” PeopleWorldWantNeedsTryingMayRealWholeStuffDifficultConsciousnessVisionHonestBalanceProjectsExperimentsReal WorldEngagementUtopiaAdvancingNeeds And WantsSchemas Author:Gar Alperovitz
“The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I try to find clients that will give me an opportunity to work on projects that will visualize those experiences of the enslaved African and people of color. I get to learn about my roots, and my artwork allows the reader into that world by creating images that are accessible.” PeopleIfsWorldWantGivingTryingArtOpportunityProcessSubjectsColorReaderProjectsCreatingRootsGive MeSlaveryClientsArtworkPlantationsCreating ArtIllustrating Author:Jerry Pinkney
“One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling and I really try to think about what people want.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingLooksProjectsEntertainmentStorytellingJust BeingPulse Author:Ashton Kutcher
“It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.” PeopleMenWayTryingShowsFeelingsEasyProjectsTraditionFollowingInnocentEducatedAshamedAcceptableElitistVilifyAfrican Women Author:Wangari Maathai
“I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.” TryingPartyMinesKeysProjectsLowsThrownAwardsLow Key Author:James McAvoy