William H. Gass Quotes

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

The written word is everything.

If you can talk, you can write.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

Seeing your work in print is exciting, especially when you're young. It's that feeling that you have some effect on the world outside of your immediate neighbourhood.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

I started writing out all of my feelings, and people asked me, 'Have you ever thought of recording your music?' It was something I'd always thought of, but I'd never really had the confidence.

I love the physical movement and beauty of dance.

For me, the costume is 50% of everything. It informs posture, it informs flexibility, it informs the way you walk, it informs what the character is capable of doing, at any time.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Emotion is created by motion.

Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.