"There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art."

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Eyvind Kang

#Art Quotes #Dark Quotes #Hopeless Quotes

“Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to what 'Chronicle' is. There's no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.”
“I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.”
“I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be going back into studio filmmaking with a different sense of their own agency, and a different sense of the respect that they can command. When you asked the question about whether women want to be making big studio movies, the answer is almost always yes. It's just, how do they want to be treated? What is that experience going to be? And if you know the experience is gonna be shitty going into it, I personally am at a place where I'm not willing to punish myself any longer.”

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“The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.”
“Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.”

Source : R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.151, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.”
“What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.”
“Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.”

Source : Paolo Giordano (2009). “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”, p.209, Random House

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