"I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing."

-- Peter Greenaway

#Ideas Quotes #Plot Quotes #Cinema Quotes

“The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
“But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.”

Source : Nicole Mones (2007). “Lost in Translation”, p.251, Delta
“In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party”

Source : Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.68, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
“I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know..it still hurts when its cold.”
“When I got to college I finally got a job.”
“No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.20, Macmillan
“It is important to be chic.”
“I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.”

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