Room Quotes

When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed, you feel more comfortable delivering a performance. Because you know the real performance is put together in the editing room.

I was born in 1962, and the room next to me was 1963.

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it’s at a party or it’s in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

I must have books everywhere. They’re the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.

Let go of what let go of you-make room for what seeks to be held.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

There’s always some room for improvisation.