"The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological progression, and there's a safety in that. Whereas if you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Donald Richie

#Safety Quotes #Film Quotes #Progression Quotes

“Truth is such a subjective thing.”
“With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.”
“Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.”
“The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.”
“If you suddenly want me to act with Son Dongwoon one-on-one, forget it!”
“every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.”
“We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”
“In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.”

Source : Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.139, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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