“If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff” IfsHelpingStuffMemoriesForgetCrewGood MemoriesBad Stuff Author:Geoff Dyer
“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.” IfsFirstsTwoLastsMovingAttentionQualitySpecialCenturyExpectationsShotsTwentiesBoredLengthSecondsIntensityMoronFriction Author:Geoff Dyer
“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.” IfsFeelsWritingTwoBookIdeasChoicesLatterOne TimeDoing NothingWriting A Book Author:Geoff Dyer
“Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to perseverance.” IfsGivingTryingDifficultProveGiving UpBikeResortsPersevereBrake Author:Geoff Dyer
