11/6/2013
“L’image-temps directe n’est pas au présent, pas plus qu’elle n’est souvenir.”
— Gilles Deleuze on movies, “L’Image-temps. Cinéma 2”
06/6/2013
“To be honest, it’s really exciting, because having a higher profile means someone will actually send something in the right dress size.”
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Greta Gerwig on fame (The Cut)
:-/
31/5/2013
“Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they’ve got handles, and they’re rough and hard.”
— Isabel Allende, “Maya’s Notebook”
17/5/2013
“Those people who want to use a camera should have something in mind, there’s something they want to show, something they want to say.”
— Gordon Parks
07/5/2013
“People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do. But if they’re white, they won’t say it. I used to just pretend I didn’t notice it, and now I just think I don’t care.
There are all sorts of reasons not to like my writing. But that’s not one of them. Saying something is angry is not a criticism. It’s not valid. It’s not a valid observation in terms of criticism. You can list it as something that’s true. But it’s not critical.
You may not like it because it makes you uneasy—and you can say that. But to damn it because it’s angry…. They always say that about black people: “those angry black people.” And why? You’re afraid that there might be some truth to their anger. It might be justified.
I promise you, if I had blonde hair and blue eyes this wouldn’t be an issue. No one ever says, “That angry Judith Krantz…” or whatever.
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— Jamaica Kincaid, author, on anger and race in writing. (via thequeenofstartingover)
(Source: rawlikefunfetti)
04/5/2013
““…Art is simply inevitable. It was on the wall of a cave in France 30,000 years ago, and it’s because we are a species that’s driven by narrative. Art is storytelling, and we need to tell stories to pass along ideas and information, and to try and make sense out of all this chaos. And sometimes when you get a really good artist and a compelling story, you can almost achieve that thing that’s impossible which is entering the consciousness of another human being—literally seeing the world the way they see it. Then, if you have a really good piece of art and a really good artist, you are altered in some way, and so the experience is transformative and in the minute you’re experiencing that piece of art, you’re not alone. You’re connected to the arts. So I feel like that can’t be too bad.
Art is also about problem solving, and it’s obvious from the news, we have a little bit of a problem with problem solving. In my experience, the main obstacle to problem solving is an entrenched ideology. The great thing about making a movie or a piece of art is that that never comes into play. All the ideas are on the table. All the ideas and everything is open for discussion, and it turns out everybody succeeds by submitting to what the thing needs to be. Art, in my view, is a very elegant problem-solving model.”
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— Steven Soderbergh (via brightwalldarkroom)
(Source: restinvermont, via brightwalldarkroom)
02/5/2013
“March to the streets ‘cuz I’m willing and I’m able
Categorize me, I defy every label
And while you’re selling dope, we’re gonna keep selling hope
We rising up now, you gotta deal, you gotta cope
Will you be electric sheep?
Electric ladies, will you sleep?
Or will you preach?”
— Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N.
15:54
“She’s amazing. She’s inspiring. I took her on tour with me just so I could stay on my A game.”
16/4/2013
“Paul Thomas Anderson and I like ribbing each other. He goes, ‘How does it feel to be the shortest superstar in the world?’ And I say, ‘It’s amazing. And who tagged on that other act in the movie after Joaquin drove off on the motorcycle? Because the movie ended there, right?’”
— Robert Downey Jr on his friendship with PT Anderson
10/4/2013
“What are the events in life? Like, you see a door. The first time you come to it, you say, ‘Oh, what’s on the other side of the door?’ Then you open a few doors and then you say, ‘I think I want to go over a bridge this time. I’m tired of doors.’ Finally you go through one of these things, and you come out the other side, and you realize that’s all there are: doors! And windows and bridges and gates. And they all open the same way. And they all close behind you. Look, life is supposed to be a path, and you go along, and these things happen to you, and they’re supposed to change your direction, but it turns out that’s not true. Turns out the experiences are nothing. They’re just pennies you pick up off the floor, stick in your pocket, and you’re just going in a straight line to you-know-where.”
— Roger Sterling (Mad Men season 6 premiere)
(Source: wooliebear)
29/3/2013
“I never thought of marriage as something only for men and women. But I’d never marry a guy I didn’t like.”
14:47
“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
— Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting, A London Adventure, 1927
12:48
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you”
Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters
(via rocketrictic)
11:25
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
— Virginia Woolf
14/2/2013
“Whenever I meet a young director who is looking for guidance and advice, I tell him to look at the example of John Cassavetes, a source of the greatest strength. John made it possible for me to think that I could actually make a movie.”
— Martin Scorsese
(Source: johncassavetes, via ontheset)
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