Quotes About Clarity

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.

When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.

Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

I think, a lot of times, we find ourselves in a relationship where we are on two different pages.

If I'm looking at life without a spiritual perspective, it's a lot more painful, a lot more confusing, and there's so much that I don't understand.

Paint the essential character of things.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

People love to panic and create chaos, please avoid that. It won't help matters.

Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in order to focus only on their goal. Others have a giant lens, and they take in the whole panorama. I was that pinhole kind of person.

I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.