It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Not to act is to act. Not to speak is to speak.
See {631935} for a similar statement 50 years later.
The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.
There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
Diva has a negative connotation.
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.
Each thing implies the universe.
Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.
And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.
For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
Reticences are as revealing as avowals.
The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'
I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'
I mean, this is a joke, to try to implicate me as like a friend of the Russians.
