top of page
More

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
Author Name
Personal Development

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
Author Name
Personal Development

"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
Author Name
Personal Development

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
Author Name
Personal Development

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case."
Creativity

"So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny."
Fun

"But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am."
Public

"In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them."
People

"Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question."
Writing

"With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement."
Age

"Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut."
Movies

"Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good."
People

"People can't help how they look."
People

"All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie."
Comedy
bottom of page