"I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Andrew Dominik

“It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.”
“A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.”
“All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.”
“People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.”
“Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.”

Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics
“As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to â€œwatch oneâ€™s healthâ€ as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.”
“I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.”
“Sometimes we want to engage in a war for financial reasons, for strategic reasons, for moral reasons, for all sorts of reasons, and it's important when we're making that decision to remind ourselves of what happens to the people on the front lines when we start this process.”

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