The World Motivation
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
“With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.”
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.
There have always been discussions about a 'Pippin' movie. I think it would lend itself very well to film if one could solve how to translate the theatrical conceit of the show to film.
It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
If I see my films described as 'quirky' or, even worse, 'snarky' one more time, I'm going to probably seriously consider an early retirement. All these years, I've labored under the conceit that they were "darkly humorous.'
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.