When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

  • -- Atom Egoyan 原子egoyan

当你的预算比较少的时候,我想当你写作的时候,你脑海中要考虑的一件事就是你要把人物的数量降到最低。

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There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.

我父亲家有九个孩子,母亲家有八个。我的祖父母用他们所拥有的做得最好。大萧条之后,他们勉强糊口,努力工作。他们维持着这个家庭。

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

通过康复,我明白了创造角色的意义。我明白创造完整的人意味着知道我们从哪里来,我们如何犯错误,我们如何克服困难使自己更强大。

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

所有的思想都必须直接或间接地通过某些特性,最终与直观联系起来,因此与我们联系起来,与感性联系起来,因为没有别的方法可以把一个对象给予我们。

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.

在公共场所工作的荣耀和恐惧之一是,你能看到你的工作成果对任何人是否有意义。

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

在计划一本书的时候,不要计划结局。它必须由它之前的所有人来赢得。

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

我不介意孤独。我喜欢和别人聊天,但是我需要我的空间。

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

如果讲故事的人讲的是真的,所有的故事都会以死亡告终。

Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.

伏特加不能缓解背痛。但它确实能让你忘记它。