"Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them."

-- Gene Perret

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“Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?”
“So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.”
“A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.”
“Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.”
“The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.”
“Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.”
“Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we're actually happy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.”

Source : James Sallis (2012). “Black Hornet”, p.13, Oldcastle Books

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