“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindMatterEarthFilmFacesIndividualStarsConsciousnessFantasyModernSpecialEffectsChangedReflectionShotsCapacityHollywoodSightStressProfoundStrangerBillionsSelfishnessMaskFallacySpecial Effects Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.” MindHumansRealLightFilmFacesNaturalLossCommonSpecialEffectsChangedHollywoodSkinsDenyToneReplacedGorgeousImagerySpecial EffectsPrecious ThingsHuman FacesNatural LightSkin Tone Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.” PeopleThinkingWorldPoliticalIndividualProcessPartyWorryEffectsChangedTelevisionAmountPolitical Parties Author:Alexander Stille
“television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayBelieveKindMightTogetherIndividualSupportPsychologySeeingEffectsChangedTelevisionPerceptionConsequenceAppreciateDirectDon't BelievePatternsVariousPerceiveAnalysisVirusesHinderSubliminalBombarded Author:Elizabeth Janeway
“I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the year 2050 or 2100 or 2200 and they have incredible technology and you see the effects: laser beams and rays and beaming down and beaming up. Incredible technical things happening, but everybody is still running around jealous, fighting, whacking, cheating. There's got to be something going on! Some kind of change. I'd like to see something starting to happen in that area, with the psychology of the human being and how that changed.” PeopleYearsHumansKindStillsHappensRunningFightingHuman BeingsFictionTechnologyPsychologyEffectsChangedHappeningsAreasDown AndScience FictionIncrediblesStartingThings HappenCheatingJealousRaysBeamLasers Author:Leslie Nielsen
“I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.” ThinkingWorldGivingYearsLittlesEvilSidesCompassionForeverGraceOur LivesEffectsChangedOvercomingComplicatedCrueltyHopefullySide EffectsOvercoming Evil Author:Adam Rapp
“People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.” PeopleBelieveBookBigsI BelieveCausesEffectsChangedNot SureExaggerationChanged My Life Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.” WorldTwoConsciousnessEffectsChangedBuildingExtraordinaryBlowTerrorNarrative Author:Don DeLillo
“[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.” Would BeNationsCausesFateEffectsEventsChangedReaderPagesGloryImpressionRomeExhaustedRepetitionHostilityPersia Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition
“If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.” IfsPersonsWaitingEffectsChangedWillingListeningConnectionsPauses Author:Alan Alda
“The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.” WorldChildrenStatesKidsCausesBornLinesPoorUnitedUnited StatesKnowingEffectsChangedWalkingMetsNot KnowingBeatenUnbornChanged My Life Author:Terry Gross
“I even have some stories of people telling me how that song has changed their life, how it got them through hard times, how it saved their life when they were on the verge of thinking of doing the worst. That just really amazes me, that that movie [Romeo + Juliet] and that part in the movie are still having a huge effect on people's lives today.” PeopleThinkingStillsHardStoriesTodaySongWorstEffectsChangedHugeSavedHard TimesLive For TodayVergeJulietRomeo JulietThrough Hard Times Author:Quindon Tarver
“I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayLittlesLongDoeDoneSeemsStuffBitsEffectsRocksHavensChangedLittle BitHarderHarmonyAwfulChanging The WorldCyclesRock N RollBobLong WayDylan Author:David Gilmour