“We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
Philip K. Dick, Writer (illustration by Robert Crumb)
“I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”
Charlie Chaplin, Film Genius
A film can be good, mediocre or poor. But it should never be done against conscience, thoughts and ideology of the author.
The creative adult is the child who survived.
I like to think about music in terms of golf. It’s competitive, but only with yourself.
“The most sophisticated people I know, inside they are all children.”
Jim Henson, THE puppeteer
(Photograph by Ted Neuhoff)
That Black Eyed Peas “Dirty Dancing” thing is worse than raping a cat. What is wrong with people? Do they hate ears?
I feed my hunger for fiction with what is by far the most accomplished source: those great American TV series (…) There is a knowledge in them, a sense of story and economy, of ellipsis, a science of framing and cutting, a dramaturgy and an acting style that has no equal anywhere, and certainly not in Hollywood.
Down is the new up.
To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.
