“I'll put out an album, and people review it, and some people love it, and some people tear it apart. By nature of the project, I've always wanted this to be something where people react strongly to it.” PeopleWantedTearsProjectsAlbumsReviews Author:Girl Talk
“We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.” PeopleIfsUseProblemCareActionWantedThreeOpportunityInterestQualityLeaderDevelopmentProjectsApproachMajorsTrainingResourcesAreasProgramInnovationAccessLocalsExpandingMunicipalityMajor ChangeQuality ServiceReplication Author:Ruth Simmons
“I had also wanted to work with Aaron McGruder for a long time and there were a few other people on the project that I really wanted to work with,so it seems like a miracle of a project ['Black Jesus'] was handed to me.” PeopleLongSeemsWantedJesusBlackProjectsLong TimeMiracle Author:Kali Hawk
“I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing and singing in That Dog was really fun, but I wanted to work on other musical projects and sing more. So I started a vocal project, i.e. Imaginaryland.” WantedFunDogBandProjectsSingingMusicalVocalViolinBackup Author:Petra Haden
“I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.” ThinkingWantStoriesUseWantedProjectsStandardsCrossesMulticulturalismTropesPersonal Stories Author:Saya Woolfalk
“I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going to be able to join one of the dwindling number of commercial galleries, I started an ARI called the Basement Project which ran for three years. Things came a little at a time and all of a sudden it's 20 years later and I'm still making art, which is really all I ever wanted to do.” YearsLittlesArtStillsBigsAbleWantedLastsThreeNumbersSeeingProjectsFinishedRanHeightThree YearsGalleryRecessionsBasements Author:Patricia Piccinini
“We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted to just find a different way [for Tales of Halloween]. And being that unity was what the whole spirit of the project was - unity and friendship and community.” WayDifferentWholeWantedSpiritCommunityProjectsUnityTalesDifferent WaysFilmmakerHalloweenAnthology Author:Mike Mendez
“I knew I wanted to shoot in Japan early on. Years ago, we did a Japan segment in "The Community Project," and at the time I felt it was one of the better Japan segments ever captured.” YearsWantedFeltCommunityProjectsYears AgoJapanCaptured Author:Travis Rice
“Suri is my daughter, she's very, very special to me, and this project took a lot of time and because it's my first feature I wanted her to know that she's so special to me. I thought that as she gets old that will mean more to her, that she's always the most important, and I wanted to give her a special thanks because she means everything to me.” KnowsGivingFirstsMeanImportantWantedSpecialProjectsDaughterThanksFeaturesMy DaughterSpecial To Me Author:Katie Holmes
“What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.” YearsMindIdeasWantedSecretHappenedReturnConversationProjectsEnglandOriginalsLondonTomsInvitedChordsAdventurerHardyOriginal Ideas Author:Steven Knight
“Donald Trump has a bunch of people who have been able to find the money they need for projects that they wanted to do and succeed at them and show a profit at the same time, and everybody involved wins.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensShowsAbleWantedWinningTrumpInvolvedSucceedProjectsProfitBunch Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of the very recognizable vocal things that she does, which are great. But I wanted to, with this project, start the conversation again about her as a radical feminist, as a civil rights activist - taking a stance. And also just [her] being a non-conformist.” PeopleWayFeelsDoeStillsWantedArtistVoiceFocusRightsConversationProjectsFeministCivil RightsRadicalHolidayActivistAppreciatedVocalStanceConformistRadical FeministNon Conformist Author:Jose James
“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
“That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun. I was in a couple of Lloyd's films and got approached to write the story. People don't realize it, but Gorgeous George had this flamboyant, camp stage persona that had a tremendous influence on other celebrities, like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, and Mohammed Ali, who all wanted to establish their own outlandish stage personas. The project died because Gorgeous George's wife refused to give up the rights.” PeopleGivingWritingStoriesWantedFilmRealizingWifeRightsInfluenceStageCoupleGiving UpProjectsDiedProducersCampsGorgeousPersonaFlamboyantOutlandishStory PeopleKiwiMohammed Ali Author:John Ratzenberger
“Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.” IfsWantKindLittlesWantedHumanityBitsChurchOpinionChangedDivineLike YouProjectsLatePerceptionLittle BitConceptsFemaleDirectUltimateWesternToo LateCyclesOrthodoxFeminineDisappointedWant MeMaryMentorMysticalVirginsHis LoveVirgin MaryDivine FeminineWestern SocietyBeing DisappointedOrthodox Church Author:Laura Marling