July 2012
128 posts
“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering,...”
– Sans Soleil (1983) Directed by Chris Marker (via 2or3thingsiknowaboutfilm)
“To animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman (via nedhepburn)
“Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that...”
– Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting)
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“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
– Charles Bukowski (via nedhepburn)
Thousand Words: William Friedkin on Take twos →
mrgregfrancis:
William Friedkin on his shooting style, starting with talking about Pacino in the movie Cruising:
Pacino was very difficult to work with, he was unprepared. That was part of his modus operandi. After the success of The Godfather, he felt that the way to make a film was to learn the lines just…
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“There’s this obsession nowadays with technology and the fact that everything...”
– Harmony Korine on Trash Humpers (via umthanks)
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“I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday. I saw the terror on bystanders’...”
– Jessica Redfield (real last name: Ghawi) was shot and killed last night at a midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ along with 11 others when a gunman opened fire in a theater. The above is from her blog, written in June, after she narrowly escaped another senseless shooting at a mall in...
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“The sheer ambition of Nolan’s work has forced other blockbuster filmmakers to...”
– Christopher Nolan: Escape Artist
