“Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.” WayGamesLanguageRoomsKeysBedMethodBest WayPhrasesAbstractBullshitRight WayVocabularyGrammarAcquisitionSkullsForeign LanguageSecond BestNumbingLanguage AcquisitionMemorization Author:Chuck Thompson
“The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.” FirstsLongI CanRoomsWallTestsReactionsAbstractHanging On Author:Bill Vaughan
“Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.” PeopleIfsFeelsShouldKindStillsIdeasDifferentStoriesDreamProcessChanceRoomsHonestStructureAbstractDifferent ThingsFilmmakingStay True Book:David Lynch: Interviews Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.” WellsLanguageSocialParentSimpleRoomsMillionsGraceDoorsBehaviorExpectationsConstantSillyAbstractRebellionHouseholdBetter LifeClosed DoorsWell ManneredSocial Graces Author:Jack Nicholson