“It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.” WorryNiceWingsThrownAlleyways Author:Rob Payne
“It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.” PersonsLongRememberGivenEasyPayHarderCynicalSubwaySupermarketsSorrowfulTubsBeside YouYogurt Author:Rob Payne
“People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.” PeopleTryingMightBeautifulMovingEasyChallengesSecretGainsInsightTemptationGrantedConfusedFlawedKeep MovingMiscommunicationFried FoodClogging Author:Rob Payne
“When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.” WayFeelsLittlesDifferentEyeKidsInevitableSongwritingCompassionate Author:Dave Grohl
“With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.” I CanRunningFilmQualityImagineDespairPerfectionEssenceUpliftingExceptionEcstasyVitalitySurrealBittersweetAdjectivesParadoxicalBest Film Author:Damian Pettigrew
“I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.” IfsArtFilmGoalSuccessfulRiskStandardsAreasTraditionParadoxFormulasAmbitiousAssociatesDocumentariesCinematicNarrationDidactic Author:Damian Pettigrew
“A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.” ShouldFilmProcessSubjectsRemainsAssumingInvisibleSuperiorsFilmmakerVisiblePortraitsTopicsSimplestEvokeEnigmaBest FilmNever Assume Author:Damian Pettigrew
“I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.” PeopleMenTwoTodayTogetherPoliticalUnitedGenerationsTeachingInformationSticksBoundariesBridgesImaginaryUp To YouSingle PeoplePolynesia Author:Mau Piailug
“First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.” FirstsDesignEvolutionIntelligentInfinityIntelligent Design Author:E. Lee Spence
“As a child, everyone dreams of finding treasure. There's romance and drama. But as an adult most people aren't going to spend their lives trying to find it.” PeopleTryingChildrenDreamRomanceDramaFindingsAdultsTreasure Author:E. Lee Spence