Quotes About Expression

I am going to give from every corner of my soul.

You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego.

And that principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts become words!

So much of our teaching on what it means to follow Jesus depends on getting people to do 'spiritual' disciplines: Bible reading, solitude, fasting, service, prayer--these are all necessary and vitally important disciplines. But they are not the only ways we express spirituality, nor are they the only disciplines that are spiritual in nature.

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

One day the worlds male population will spontaneously combust because they've kept too much stuff in for too long.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

The stuff that dreams are made of is often difficult to express in words but may be imaginable as pictures in your head. Elizabeth Sanders, Generative Tools for CoDesigning

Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.

He once said that just bec ause you can go on at length doesn't mean that you have something to say, it doesn't mean you have a story to tell; just because you've been unlucky or short-changed or fucked over or fallen heavily on the thorns of life - that's no justification

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

The best thing is that everything that you make in Scratch can be stored directly on your computer or you can upload it on the Scratch website if you want to get feedback from other users.

What You Are, You Reproduce

There's no law against writing a boring book…but there ought to be.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

We still couldn't use "ass" any way we pleased. In one script, we had the phrase "up his ass"; Fox censors asked us to change it to "in his ass." That seemed worse, but we did as they asked.

A minister in Iowa burned the book in his church parking lot. (This is not as bad as it sounds—before they can burn it, they've got to buy it.)

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.