E.L. James Quotes
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.
When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.
GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.
Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.
Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.
A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.
Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.
We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.
Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.
I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.
If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.
You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.
There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.
As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.
The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.
Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.
I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
I loved the world of Oz. I guess as a young man, I was just drawn to fantasy worlds. I liked being transported to alternative realms where a lot of my early imagination was sparked.
We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
It's basically the best job in the world. If you're fortunate enough - and I consider myself fortunate - you get to work with your friends and you get to work on projects that interest you.
I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.
Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.
I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.
The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.
The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.
Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.
For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.
"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make the movies in the next year, or two, or three.
There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.
