Quotes About Expression

Misschien is fictie het net waarin hij gevangen kan worden.

Ik wilde dat ik het vermogen had om uiting te geven aan mijn gevoelens. Jammer genoeg kan ik dat niet; maar ik troost mij met de gedachte, dat degene die het wel kan die gevoelens misschien niet bezit.

Houd je een vulpen in je hand, dan wordt de inkt warm. De inkt komt net zo warm als je bloed op het papier en dat moet je hebben.

Gelukkig is het geschrevene iets dat hoorbaar is zonder gehoord te hoeven worden. Zelfs het bescheidenste woordje dat ik neerschrijf, het woordje "zwijgen" bijvoorbeeld, overstemt het inferno in die stenen put.

The examination of even a small part of the world's music and what it means to various peoples and to various creative persons is in some ways rather like a plunge into dominant night. It is a plunge into a realm of the comparatively

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

If you can't dance then you are a loser.

True men cry not through their tears but their words.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Communication isn't as simple as saying what you mean. How you say what you mean is crucial, and differs from one person to the next, because using language is learned social behavior: How we talk and listen are deeply influenced by cultural experience. Although we might think that our ways of saying what we mean are natural, we can run into trouble if we interpret and evaluate others as if they necessarily felt the same way we'd feel if we spoke the way they did.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

Damned Elmer's Glue! Just let me finish emasculating this eye and I'll be right with you.