"That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film."

-- Krzysztof Kieslowski

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“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."”

Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
“Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.”
“The best model of a cat is another cat..., specially the same cat.”
“I'm so glad that talented writers and everybody who produces shows are being meeting with such success - it gives me more hope for the future of satire. They're probably the most powerful form of satire out there today.”

Source : Source: voices.washingtonpost.com
“There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of the most unprofessional politicians anywhere. But there wasn't much pressure in terms of speculation. Now, in Mario Monti, Italy has the kind of leader you usually only get in Hollywood movies, a distinguished professor who won't even accept a cook at his residence, the Palazzo Chigi. Instead Monti's wife cooks their pasta herself - and this is the man the markets don't trust.”
“You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.”
“Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.”

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