"Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual."

-- Walter Benjamin

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“The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.”
“A tendency for the male perspective to dominate responses to films, whether that's commissions or how a film is presented in the world. The market is used to a male voice and a male audience, which it feeds”
“In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.”
“Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.”
“The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.”
“I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much time in prison. It would have to be over a generation. But certainly, yeah, white collar crime.”
“How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?”
“I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night.”

Source : "Path’s Dave Morin". Interview with Benjamin Solomon, www.vanityfair.com. March 2013.

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