A7a Ba Quotes

#1. People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.

Carole Bouquet

#2. For I have been in my preaching, especially when I have been engaged in the doctrine of life by Christ, without works, as if an angel of God had stood by at my back to encourage me:

John Bunyan

#3. A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.

Steve Erickson

#4. Family and dysfunction went together like peanut butter and jelly. Family sagas. Everything would be okay. But how?

Diana Y. Paul

#5. I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.

Jonathan Ames

#6. Giving mental assent to people or systems that pretend to control you allows them to do just that.

Zachary Slayback

#7. ...Feeling like your life's been ripped apart and put together again, only put together wrong.

Day Leclaire

#8. If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

Frank Lampard

#9. Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

Stephen Graham Jones