"I am a super nostalgic person in general. I think part of the reason that I'm in the film business is because, to me, when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do, it seemed like the most appropriate career I could have where I knew I wouldn't have to kill the little kid in me. I get to play around, and that's amazing. There's a quote from Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes that I always found really interesting. He said, "Anyone who is nostalgic about their childhood never had one." And I always found it fascinating."

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jordan Vogt-Roberts

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.”

Source : Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.355, Simon and Schuster
“I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.”
“When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.”
“When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.
“People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.”
“The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.”

Source : "1967: Our rights have to be recognised" by Ismail Haniyeh, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.

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