You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.
Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
The member of a culture. . . purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. . . . He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.
What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side.
Hillary Clinton should get a bounce out of her convention, I mean a bounce in the polls. I think it's probably conceded that Donald Trump got about a three-point bounce out of his conventions. He's closed the gap that much.
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
Society's the mother of convention.
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.
By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.
