The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.
I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.
Everywhere I've been working, I always had in mind the final destination of the clothes, which is the consumer.
I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.
The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.
The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.
It was like in the film, when I was actually doing a take and wasn't quite sure of the context, and then in the completed film it works beautifully. In the end I didn't know why I felt so shitty doing it, and why it turns out great in the final product. I guess you have to live in that unknown.
Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it. . . devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. . . . As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.
The final aim is not to know, but to be. . . . You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.
The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.
When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.
Some stories feel like they need more time or less time to tell. To not obsessively have to trim or add that final two or three minutes is very helpful, because you can just organically follow how the story feels.
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.