"You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, costume, expression-radically and correctly."

-- Richard Avedon

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“Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecterâ€™s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.”
“Making movies is like herding cats.”

Source : "The producers". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.
“The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.”
“We should learn to think with our fingers.”

Source : "Meditation" by Jose Lorenzo-Fuentes, (p. 113), 2003.
“The psychology of the saver and the psychology of the investor is very closely connected with Keynes' distinction between risk and uncertainty. When the future is uncertain, he thought that a lot of saving would be directed towards securing, securing more, getting more security in the present, rather than building wealth in the future, which was the classical view, you save in order to invest, in order to consume more later on. What he had called the propensity to hoard or liquidity preference would normally be stronger than the inducement to invest.”
“We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.”
“I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.”
“At the end of pain is SUCCESS!”

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