Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
Robert Redford
Recitation: by Male by Female
It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.
Jennifer Egan
WorkLiveMeWinBookImpossible
Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous, very destructive, but not to do it means you are satisfied with the status quo - and that's a kind of danger as well, because a kind of violence is already being perpetuated.
John Edgar Wideman
PeopleRealityViolenceYouKind
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
MoneyPeopleDoctorRichThinkPoor
FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.
Andrew Yang
FearTimeEnemyOutMissingOwn
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
Robert Giroux
GoodYouKnowPoetsManyReaders
Here I am sitting in the back of a cab with Catherine Zeta-Jones who is telling me Michael Douglas has fond memories of me - it just makes me feel good as a human being.
John Schneider
GoodMemoriesI AmMeFeel Good
We're big fans of the idea that faith without works is dead.
John Tesh
FaithDeadWithoutFansBigIdea
I'd never had much interest in cool cars.
Steve Rushin
CoolNeverInterestMuchHad
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.
Trevor Moore
ChangeWritingProcessSeeingSketch
In my experience, nice guys are boring, and bad guys are fun to play.
Tom Everett Scott
ExperienceFunBadPlayNiceBoring
I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.
Jason Momoa
HawaiiBornI Was RaisedIowaRaised
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
Joseph de Maistre
VisionManResultsPoorEverything
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