"There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems."

-- Gus Van Sant

#Wise Quotes #Editing Quotes #Elephants Quotes

“I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.”
“It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing.”
“It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.”
“The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computersâ€™ rigidity.”
“When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.”
“Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses”

Source : Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons
“National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.”
“It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2013). “Gallatin Canyon”, p.31, Random House

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