The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.
Interpretation
Writing allows for personal expression and a sense of freedom despite external constraints.
This quote reflects the deep connection between a writer's life and their craft, emphasizing that the act of writing is not just a profession but a means of personal expression and fulfillment. Despite the pressures and constraints of daily life and work, writing provides a unique sense of ownership and freedom, making it a valuable pursuit that the writer would not exchange for any other lifestyle.
In practice
In a speech about the value of creativity in life.
The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.
If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.
They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.
When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
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