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"By take 50 or 60 you start being in this Zen-like state which is really pleasurable because you have..."

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:26:15 -0400

“By take 50 or 60 you start being in this Zen-like state which is really pleasurable because you have it wired, you have that finest aspect of where that frame is, and you realize that where I can go another inch with my foot when I go around this corner I can come a little closer here, I can line that thing in the frame with that thing in the background and then open it up, then think that this frame is 1 degree better on the left.”

- Garrett Brown on Shooting The Shining

"One wonderful, wonderful thing about show business is that almost everybody in it got into it when..."

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:24:48 -0400

“One wonderful, wonderful thing about show business is that almost everybody in it got into it when they were young and frightened.”

- David Mamet

"the way to tell a story is the way you would tell it to your friends in a cafe. And if you have a..."

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:32:39 -0400

“the way to tell a story is the way you would tell it to your friends in a cafe. And if you have a talent as a narrator, you will tell this story well. Otherwise all the technique in the world will never help you.”

- Federico Fellini quoted by Lina Wertmuller

Timberlea Meat & Video

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:21:24 -0400

Timberlea Meat & Video

"Choose the highest bidder was my answer when they told me that I was up for sale."

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:41:23 -0400

“Choose the highest bidder was my answer when they told me that I was up for sale.”

- from “Soft Rock Star” by Metric

Anna Karina in Pierrot le fou

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:47:49 -0400

Anna Karina in Pierrot le fou

Belmondo: I've always wanted to know exactly what cinema is.

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:09:00 -0400

Belmondo: I've always wanted to know exactly what cinema is.
Fuller: A film is like a battleground. There's love. Hate. Action. Violence. Death. In one word - emotions.
Belmondo: Ah.

Jean-Paul Belmondo & Samuel Fuller in “Pierrot le...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:07:16 -0400

Jean-Paul Belmondo & Samuel Fuller in “Pierrot le Fou”

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Heath Ledger in I’m Not There...

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:13:13 -0400

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Heath Ledger in I’m Not There quoting Godard’s Masculin Féminin

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in The Lady from Shanghai

Sat, 31 May 2008 15:12:58 -0400

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in The Lady from Shanghai

"Do you know how to mix drinks? Once acquired, it will serve you for life. Like typing."

Tue, 27 May 2008 17:05:06 -0400

“Do you know how to mix drinks?
Once acquired, it will serve you for life.
Like typing.”

- Peter O’Toole in Venus

Sydney Pollack, 1934 - 2008

Mon, 26 May 2008 22:53:00 -0400

Sydney Pollack, 1934 - 2008

"Spielberg at heart will always be that kid who sneaked onto the back lot at Universal and talked..."

Sat, 24 May 2008 13:09:05 -0400

“Spielberg at heart will always be that kid who sneaked onto the back lot at Universal and talked himself into a job.”

- Roger Ebert

"Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6,..."

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:47:40 -0400

“Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.”

- Heaven to Tom Waits

"if you think of videogames as simply a system through which you have an individual and a monitor and..."

Mon, 19 May 2008 19:14:49 -0400

“if you think of videogames as simply a system through which you have an individual and a monitor and a computer that somehow links the two of them and creates an experience, then I think that that system is never going to go away”

- Shigeru Miyamoto

“We must confront vague ideas with clear images”...

Sun, 18 May 2008 09:26:23 -0400

“We must confront vague ideas with clear images” from La Chinoise

"Love is like a bottle of gin, but a bottle of gin is not like love."

Tue, 13 May 2008 18:39:17 -0400

“Love is like a bottle of gin, but a bottle of gin is not like love.”

- Stephin Merritt from one of the 69 Love Songs

"people sitting in a straight line looking at the same thing"

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:52:23 -0400

“people sitting in a straight line looking at the same thing”

- Mike Figgis describes viewing a film

“I’m gonna read it” - Gia opens the script...

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:08:11 -0400

“I’m gonna read it” - Gia opens the script for the new X-Files film.

"We love to think that we are human. But I think that we become human."

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:18:28 -0400

“We love to think that we are human. But I think that we become human.”

- Arnaud Desplechin