It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
Real power. . . comes not from hate, but from truth.
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown. ' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.
Living men are bound by time. . . Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?
I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time.
The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.
Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the process rather than the result.
Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.