"Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a product."

-- TorbjÃ¸rn RÃ¸dland

“Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of SalÃ²] is also included.”
“I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.”
“West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.”
“Every man dies, but not every man truly lives.”
“As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.”
“Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.”

Source : Song: Child of the Wind

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