"Light is my brush. Film is my canvas."

-- Steve Coleman

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“They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.”
“By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.14, New York Review of Books
“Art never expresses anything but itself.”
“I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.”

Source : "The Movie Glen Mazzara Has 'Seen A Million Times'". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.
“Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.”

Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.”
“Justin Lin is one of the most impressive people I've met professionally. I don't think he sleeps, or I think he sleeps 20 minutes every few hours during the night. Mostly, between shooting days, he was making rough cuts and other decisions with creative things on the Star Trek. He blew me away; in spite of working insane hours most days, his energy is incredibly generous and calm. Within the eye of storm, there was Justin there. He's someone who takes the temperature down and makes you feel calm in the middle of that, which is the greatest asset a huge production could have.”
“Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社

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