I work with the situation of the moment. On the spot decisions. The idea comes from the situation. This is how the film is shaped in different ways.
— Seijun Suzuki.

I never wanted to be an actor. I would prefer to be a playwright, but I don’t have the talent. So, being stage-struck, I put on the other fellow’s plays.
— David Merrick.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
- Eero Saarinen.

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won’t be able to give much information about who it is.
— Chuck Close.

It was a deliberate learning. I forgot everything I knew when I was beginning to learn to write. And I did this thing about writing one sentence after another, adding one bit of meaning to another bit of meaning.

— V. S. Naipaul.