Oct 31 2007
I’m at home today with nothing better to do than post stuff like this. I found a WordPerfect file on — get this — a floppy disk I found buried in a box full of computer cables. The file is dated February 1999. I was probably writing an undergraduate philosophy paper. Here’s the [...]
Oct 31 2007
I found my paperback of Papa Hemingway, by A.E. Hotchner, behind my couch today. I don’t remember ever reading this book. A found a bookmark between pages 74 and 75. On page 75 it reads:
Hotcher: Mr. William Faulkner [said]… that you never crawl out on a limb. Said you had no courage, [...]
Aug 27 2007
My belief is that all these dreams are yours as well, and the only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about. It’s as simple as that. And I make films because I have not learned anything else [...]
Mar 08 2007
I’ve been reading Arthur Koestler’s book The Sleepwalkers. Here are some quotes:
…I have been interested, for a long time, in the psychological process of discovery as the most concise manifestation of man’s creative faculty — and in that converse process that blinds him towards truths which, once perceived by a seer, become so heartbreakingly obvious. [...]
Nov 10 2006
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
— Philip K. Dick
I saw the quote on this video (love the music!).
Jan 12 2006
I read this quote recently:
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Just a topic that’s been on my mind lately.
Dec 08 2005
If you want to be a hero well just follow me.
- John Lennon, from Working Class Hero
Sep 21 2005
“Writing allows mediocre people who are patient
and industrious to revise their stupidity,
to edit themselves into intelligence.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
Mar 27 2005
I’ve always wondered if there was someone else in the world who was having the very same thought I was having, at the exact same time. I tried to phone him, but his line was busy.
- Lorne Michaels
Sep 25 2004
How can you be so serious on a film where you are dodging explosions and running away with Sir Alec Guinness on this side and an eight-foot monkey on this side, and the eight-foot monkey is the one flying the spaceship?
- Mark Hamill
Jun 29 2004
A [random] Quote from Mr. Spock.
In critical moments men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.
- Spock, from The Tholian Web, stardate 5693.2
Jun 10 2004
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
- Ray Charles (1930-2004)
May 25 2004
People worry about their rent, their children, their home life. That’s basic. That’s how 80-90 percent, or God knows how many people live. I write stories about a submerged population, people who don’t always have someone to speak for them. I’m sort of a witness, and, besides, that’s the life I myself lived for a [...]
May 11 2004
My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
- Bob Marley
(thanks Phillip)
