Slice Of Life Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith, Alfred Korzybski, Alfred Hitchcock, Geoffrey Holder, Nestor Carbonell, Deborah Copaken and many others.
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.
If it’s strictly comedy, I like to bring some darkness to it. If it’s strictly drama, I always like to lighten it up as well. I like to find some kind of dimension and make my characters human, so that it doesn’t feel like a sketch and feels more like a slice of life.
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
I play- it’s kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what’s their friendship like, and what’s their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit’s foot of their particular religion. You don’t really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
It’s not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives – lends verisimilitude to what you are doing – it’s that it feeds the imagination.
I don’t *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.
