I like to break the rules. To my mind plot is unimportant… I am interested most In characterizations. The people must be real… Fitting the actor to the character is fifty per cent of the battle in creating good pictures. If they are not twin personalities the story itself loses conviction.
“Seized by a sudden truth I started up at 4 a.m. The word grip pronounced “gripe” is applied only to towns, cities and habitations; the word gripe pronounced “grip” can be used of human beings. In my dream I saw the two parts of this truth connected by a three-mile long rope of women’s hair. And just at that moment all the questions of male and female soul murder, which were to be answered as soon as I pulled on the rope, broke away and fell in a chunk back down the rocky chasm where I had been asleep. We are the half and half again, we are the language stump.”
Anne Carson | “Short Talk on the Truth to Be Had from Dreams”