"I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts."

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Source : Stan Brakhage (1982). “Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980”

Stan Brakhage

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“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.”
“Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.”
“You have to learn to be patient and not give up. Look to your parents; they need to be there for you. But having spiritual faith will get you through anything.”
“In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.”
“I want to do my best in everything.Â Music, love, everything I like.”
“Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they sought to attain the same end by asking another person a question, by means of which certain processes of thought would be excited, and then by questioning the person about the introspection he had made. It is obvious ... that nothing can be discovered in such experiments.”
“Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing.”

Source : "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.
“Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.”

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