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Allison Anders Quotes

I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.

Allison Anders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: November 16, 1954

Topics

Work Deep Down Always Cast Much

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

Joan Jett

Job Feel Torch Carry I Feel Like

I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.

Jenny Lewis

Moment People Free Feel You Bad

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

John Mulaney

Funny Doing Worth Things Something

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

Robert J. Sawyer

People Writing Reading Go My Own

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Matthew McConaughey

Writing Start You Phone Now Want

Science changes, and it's odd to me that scientists say, 'Never be skeptical,' because it was in the mid-'70s when they were saying we're sunk because we're going to have global climate cooling.

Matt Mead

Science Me Saying Say Never Changes

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

Stephen Sondheim

Great Cry Two Audience Disbelief

Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.

Shiri Appleby

Character Man Story Affects Most

I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

Mohsin Hamid

Future Think Artist Need Politicians

I was cast in a film toward the end of high school. Even then, I wasn't sure.

Miranda Otto

School High School End High Film

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

Joseph Brodsky

Language Stick Would Writer He

I am always interested in making myself as uncomfortable as I can. Sometimes I ask myself, 'Can I stand onstage and sing this song and sell it?' Sometimes I can't. In a room, you get to pretend a little bit and step outside of yourself.

Chris Stapleton

Myself Yourself I Am Step Song You