"Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism."

-- Wim Wenders

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“You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.”
“There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials… I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.”
“Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.”
“Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.”
“It's always a long ***** story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.”
“Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.”

Source : David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.7, Hachette UK
“For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?”

Source : "She’s Got Legs, She Knows How to Use Them". Interview with Ariella Gogol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2009.
“If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.”

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