Benjamin Percy Quotes

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.

Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.

Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing me to learn more about everyone in the process.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.

The way that I approach music has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Something slightly different that people can still relate to.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

Everything's perverted in a different way.