“In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.” IfsFilmSceneTerrorShowersGraphicPsycho Author:Charles Roven
“Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see.” MenHumansTwoEyeVisionMajorsCamerasComplicatedDialogueCertaintyVisualsObservingHuman EyesGroundworkCacophony Author:Vicki Goldberg
“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.” HumansDoeReasonReligiousPowerfulIgnoranceTruth IsConstantKillingSeekingConvictionSoleCompellingRecognizingMercifulBeing MeVariablesCompelling ReasonIrreligion Author:David Bentley
“When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.” LooksKindProblemAnswersForgetParticularSolutionsMethodNotesDistinctionNonsensicalJuncture Author:David Bentley
“The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.” WorldMindDangerBecomingApproachTraditionReverenceForgetfulCaptivated Author:David Bentley
“It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.” ReasonFactsSidesDealsImagineAtheismGardenImagine ThatRhetoricFundamentalismSprungContendingSprung Up Author:David Bentley
