"Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time."

-- J. J. Abrams

#Issues Quotes #Long Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.”
“Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.”
“The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,”

Source : "The philosophy" by Ingvar Kamprad, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2004.
“For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art.”
“Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and not by people outside Syria.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.
“Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.”

Source : "Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and Joel Schumacher Interviewed - 'The Number 23'". Press conference, collider.com. February 21, 2007.
“The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.”
“Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.”

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