“I depend on style more than plot. It is how you do it, and not your content that makes you an artist. A story is simply a motif, just as a painter might paint a bowl of fruit just to give him something to be painting.”
Alfred Hitchcock.
A group of paracyclists are bringing the cinema experience to kids living in camps in Gaza.
“Our mobile cinema is moving between camps to spread moments of joy.”
🔗: https://t.co/HIXiz3pPbk
Roman Polanski on why Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) was the only movie that really showed what one experiences under the influence of LSD:
"Interviewer: How did you interpret the ending of '2001'?
Polanski: It’s extremely ambiguous, but we’re led to understand that if there is a vastly superior intelligence, then we’re incapable of understanding and perceiving it. If it contributes to our development, then it might well be hidden from us.
Kubrick gives this idea a cinematic form. Apart from that, what I like about the film are its technical and magical aspects. It’s full of fascinating effects like the voyage into space at the end. It’s a real “trip.” There are people who give themselves a headache trying—and failing—to show how it really is when you take LSD. I’ve seen very weak efforts in other films. Without showing it directly, the film has really grasped what you see when you take LSD."
(Roman Polanski's interview with Michel Ciment, Michel Perez & Roger Tailleur, Positif, 1969)
"I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask."
— Bob Dylan
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.”
— Carl Sagan
If Trump seizes Greenland from Denmark, does that mean that all Americans will be entitled to:
Free healthcare with no deductibles?
A free college education?
52 weeks of paid parental leave?
5 weeks of paid vacation?
Because that’s what everyone in Denmark and Greenland has.