“Pixar movies, on the other hand, would live forever. He believed, as I do, that because they dig for deeper truths, our movies will endure, and he found beauty in that idea. John talks about “the nobility of entertaining people.” Steve understood this mission to his core, particularly toward the end of his life, and—knowing that entertaining wasn’t his primary skill set—he felt lucky to have been involved in it.”
– How Steve Jobs’ Passion Shaped Pixar Into an Oscar-Winning Studio“I realized that people would get sick of me. Careers end. My goal is to not wake up at 65 and say, ”That’s what I should have done.” My great-uncle George, whom I was named after, was a B-17 bomber pilot and dated Miss America. But he died an alcoholic, sleeping at a Kentucky racetrack. If I got hit by a bus, I’d want people to say, ”He jammed it all in.” That’s my driving force.”
– George Clooney“One of the principles of good storytelling is the understanding that we all live in dread. Fear is when you don’t know what’s going to happen. Dread is when you know what’s going to happen and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Death is the great dread; we all live in an ever shrinking shadow of time, and between now and then all kinds of bad things could happen.”
– Robert McKee“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
― Leonardo da Vinci“Grow where you are planted.”
—Mother Theresa“Justify it all you want. The fact remains that a LARGE portion of your audience feels like you laid a turd on their dinner plate.”
– Comment on an article about the series finale of Dexter that sums up my feelings on how the show ended“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
– Jean-Luc Godard“If you want to pick the fruit, you have to water the tree.”
“What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, they’ve got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”
― David Foster Wallace“An easygoging person is probably more accessible to a realization of eternity–the endless flow of life and death–than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.”
– Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind“The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.”
– Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind“If one man lives as though he would never die and another man lives as though he might die tomorrow, would either one wear a wristwatch?”
– Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh
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Found Quotes: Storytelling, Art, and Time
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