Eliza Coupe You can’t improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of. – Eliza Coupe Bad Quotes Create Quotes Element Quotes Hard Quotes Improv Quotes Objective Quotes Skeleton Quotes Writing Quotes If I’m not clear with the character, I can’t do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny. I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn’t learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn’t focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like ‘I don’t understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can’t focus.’
Lawrence Lessig Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process. – Lawrence Lessig
Chris Carter Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I’m a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic. – Chris Carter
Devendra Banhart As an adolescent I saw the Specials at the Glass House in Pomona, and that was life changing. I dressed the part – except not well, because it was a thrift suit. I looked more like David Byrne than a rudeboy; I still have a hard time finding suits that fit me. But I had my braces and I had my Docs. It was unbelievable. – Devendra Banhart
Mark Zandi President Obama’s reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will be in recession by spring. – Mark Zandi
Laura Carmichael I’ve not sat with my agent going: ‘Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?’ They just come along. – Laura Carmichael
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