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Jenni Olson

"I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women."

Source : "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.

Jenni Olson

#Reflection Quotes #Years Quotes #San Francisco Quotes

“As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.”
“Some of you guys are sitting down, some of you guys are standing up. But if you really take a moment and you go inside your body, you can feel your weight against the earth, and you can recognize that you're the only person who's feeling your own weight against the earth right now.”
“Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.”
“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.”
“The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.”

Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
“Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.”
“After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.”

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