"I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film."

-- Akira Kurosawa

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“Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.”
“Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.”
“My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.”

Source : "William Trevor: the keen-eyed chronicler" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.
“I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.”
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men.”
“I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.”
“Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.”
“The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.”

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