Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing... →
Aimee Bender
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most... →
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think... →
Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had... →
Lawrence Bender
A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they... →
Annette Bening
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to... →
To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman... →
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead... →
Walter Benjamin
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the... →
Arnold Bennett