"Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa."

-- Peter Schjeldahl

#Artist Quotes #Vices Quotes #Students Quotes

“More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.”
“The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.”
“I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding,”
“Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.”
“The nine of us being together is more important than anything else.”
“Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.”
“I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.”

Source : "SXSW 2014: Kodi Smit-McPhee Talks THE WILDERNESS OF JAMES, Being Free with the Character, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 09, 2014.
“So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.”

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