#mma

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#different #different thing #directing #feel #filmmaker

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#filmmakers #first #i #know #lot

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. ↗

— Libba Bray

#boarding-schools #gemma-doyle #humor #libba-bray #beauty

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ↗

— Richard Chenevix Trench

#grammar #logic #reason #speech

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#artists #imitate #immature #mature #steal

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#artists #imitates #immature #mature #steal

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#blind #consciousness #forces #himself #historic

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#filmmaker #first #i #knew #like