"With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art."

-- Conrad Hall

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“Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.”
“A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.”
“When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to." But then within like an hour, they were like, "You're really a writer." "Yeah, I really am. I'm a writer, and a director, and a producer, and an actor, and a painter, and I do all that stuff in the Lush Life." It was great.”
“I was a little bit of a cocky kid.”

Source : "Billionaire Bill Ackman’s ill-fated bike ride: “his mind wrote a check that his body couldn't cash” by William D. Cohan, www.vanityfair.com. February 27, 2013.
“A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case, the drawback is a straightforward consequence of America's approach to firearms. A well-armed citizenry required an even-better-armed constabulary. Widespread gun ownership creates a systematic climate of fear on the part of the police. The result is a quantity of police shootings that, regardless of the facts of any particular case, is just staggeringly high. Young black men, in particular, are paying the price for America's gun culture.”
“I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.”
“Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.”
“Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.”

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