"Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability."

-- Henry Giroux

#Memories Quotes #Differences Quotes #Community Quotes

“You are what you worship. There's something so true about that, with how we're operating as a culture in America. People believing in a wide variety of things, and rarely believing in the same thing. It gives us an opportunity to have a conversation: What is faith? What is belief? What is your personal responsibility for how you see yourself in the grander scheme of the universe, and life, and your contribution to it?”
“I consider myself a relatively moral guy”
“I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.”

Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.
“To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.”

Source : Eliphas Levi (1996). “The Paradoxes of the Highest Science”, p.45, Health Research Books
“The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests.”
“If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.”
“Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.”
“I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.”

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