"Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand."

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Source : Christian Metz (2015). “Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film”, p.11, Columbia University Press

Christian Metz

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“I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - which, I don't think anyone, himself included, could contest - but at the same time, it's really amazing. I love the scope of his perfectionism.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.”

Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.151, Penguin
“Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.”
“Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
“Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer”
“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”

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