Quotes About Material

Before Charlottesville, it might have been easy to dismiss the plot of 'Mudbound' as no longer relevant. Now, I feel like audiences will be more receptive to the material - and to interrogating their personal histories after watching it.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.

Some comedians make a marvellous living doing material that is completely predictable, that reminds people of things that they already know or jokes that they are already familiar with.

I am repeating the facts and the facts are I did not send nor did I receive material marked classified.

The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

I've been so impressed by the material that's been sent to me, but I don't think that's because it's me.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

That said, Fatal Vision does have a major virtue. McGinniss is genuinely obsessed with his story … with that story. That's the flaw of the book; McGinniss is so obsessed with his material that he doesn't know when to shut up about it.

Since I got an audience before I even had a comic voice, my material that really wasn't worthy of an audience somehow got it, slightly unfairly.

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.

Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.

For like everyday, just kind of hanging out, I love flannels. Part of my closet, there's a whole section of flannels because I love them so much. Slouchy, oversized hats and fedoras. I just got these 2 amazing hats that I really love, blue and gold trim with woven material by D&Y. I love D&Y hats.

When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth, it is therefore impossible for him to gather sound material with which to build a brain of stable construction.

I was pretty certain I'd stay in TV rather than returning to the feature world because the material just seems so much better in TV, especially in drama, but then 'Crossface' came my way. A heartbreaking, true story about the dark side of wrestling... I couldn't say no to that.

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.

Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the material.