“You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out.” BoysForeverFiguresGunTownsGoldenThere Comes A TimeGolden Boy Author:George Carlin
“Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?” MenReasonKidsLastsHouseHoursFireFateFiguresBrokenGunShotsBlindDetailsAccidentsPlanningSensibleChasingAccordAlarmsBroken DownBurglarsOld Houses Author:Ben Maddow
“One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed.” TryingFilmFightingThreeHoursChallengesHalfAudienceFiguresBalanceGunBoredOverwhelmedHalf HoursAssembling Author:Peter Berg
“Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and try and break down what makes a fan of that music say 'Ah fuck that other music', do you get me? Trying to figure out what makes them tick, I always try and break that down with every piece of music. But the energy in that music, I love it.” TryingEnergyBreakPiecesFansFiguresGunRoseHeavyIronMetalsBreaking DownBassMaidensTickHeavy MetalMetallicaGrungeIron MaidenDrum And Bass Author:Dizzee Rascal
“I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.” PeopleThinkingYearsWould BeSchoolGuySawsFiguresStudentsAuthorityNewsGunMy FriendsKillingScaredEveningProtestCopSixteenFiringWashington DcAuthority FiguresSixteen Year Olds Author:Gus Van Sant
“There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history. It was internal conquest. You had to defend yourself against what the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, an enlightened figure, called the attacks of the "merciless Indian savages," whose known way of warfare was torture and destruction. Also you had a slave population, you had to protect yourself against them. You needed guns.” WayLooksCultureKnownFiguresNeededProtectGunDestructionIndependenceSlavePopulationIndianTortureInternalsEnlightenedRootedWarfareSavagesDeclarationConquestAmerican CultureDeclaration Of IndependenceProtect Yourself Author:Noam Chomsky
“When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.” RealUseHandsMightUsedCausesDecisionImagineFiguresBrokenAnxietyGunSuicideCommitShockImagine ThatCurvesCarelessGrimMaidsPorcelainMight Use Author:Fernando Pessoa
“No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.” MatterUseHalfGreaterCenturyCrimeFiguresTypeApproachWeaponsGunCriminalsConclusionStrictGun ControlRestrictionLunaticFirearmsPistolsHalf A Century Author:Colin Greenwood