Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.
Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong.
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.
Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.
I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.
David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.
Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.
A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.
Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
'The Vampire Diaries' is a great show, but it's on the verge of being overcrowded. The amount of characters, a lot of them don't get screen time because there's so much to put in, and it has to center around the love triangle.
I'm a happy human being when I'm overloaded with stuff to do, but I got stuff to do.
I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.
I was never interested in being an overly public person.
