"I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films."

-- Maya Deren

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“The direction we're heading is more important than individual results.”
“I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him,”
“For God's sake, Stiff," he says. "You don't have to follow me," I say staring at the maze of bars above me. I shove my foot onto the place where two bars cross and push myself up, grabbing another bar in the process. I sway for a second, my heart beating so hard I can't feel anything else. Every thought I have condenses into that heartbeat, moving at the same rhythm. "Yes, I do," he says.”
“The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.”
“Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.”

Source : "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”
“You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.”

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