“I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesCharacterStoriesActionNaturalCreativeEasierDirtyBudgetsFilmmaking Author:Oren Peli
“The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.” PeopleLooksMadeTwoStoriesBigsNaturalKeysEasierComfortUnderstoodScreensLove StoryMade ItChemistrySensibility Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” IfsThinkingNeedsKindMeanStoriesSchoolCoursesMistakeEducationStudySeeingConditionsDutyHabitEasierHolyFoundationStructureWingsAddEducationalGravesCuriousEnjoymentInquiryCoercion Author:Albert Einstein
“I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingWellsMeanStoriesEasierGet AwayGood StoryHumiliatingAlways Happy Author:David Sedaris
“Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways its a lot easier than acting because youre orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes youre trying to second-guess what people want.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsTryingDifferentSometimesStoriesActorsActingPiecesWrittenEasierDirectorsCompelled Author:Paddy Considine
“It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.” StoriesEasierStronger Author:Jabari Parker
“In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound. It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.” IfsWorldWayImportantRealDoneStoriesShowsEasierHorrorHumorousProfoundTalesFakeFairyArtificialFairy TaleFascinationUnthinkableMorbidHorror StoriesArtificiality Author:Cindy Sherman