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I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.
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Better than that orange crap you wear!
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Oh no! This is bad. I think my heart was just stolen a little
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Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.
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Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about
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The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
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I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
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Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
