"It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school."

-- Thom Andersen

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“I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.”
“Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.”
“Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.”

Source : Perfect Sound Forever Interview, www.furious.com. May 1997.
“In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.”
“When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.”
“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.”

Source : 1984 One Writer's Beginnings, II. 'Learning to See'.
“We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.”

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