“THERE IS NO INTENSITY OF LOVE OR FEELING that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take the risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.” WILLIAM S, BURROUGHS
“YOU KNOW, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views.” DOCTOR WHO——1977
“IN A WORLD OF LIES A TRUTH SEEMS LIKE A LIE.” CARY GRANT
ROBBIE ROBERTSON 1943-2023 Canadian musician “The Band”
YOU DON’T STUBMLE UPON YOUR HERITAGE, IT’S THERE WAITING TO BE EXPLORED.
GIVE US THE STRENGTH, GIVE US THE WISDOM AND GIVE US TOMORROW.
MUSIC SHOULD NEVER BE HARMLESS.
WE NEED to have a taste factor in our life. It isn’t about what’s popular; it’s about what’s really good.
YOU FOG THE MIND, YOU STIR THE SOUL.
BOB DYLAN is as influential as any artist that there has been.
SAY A PRAYER for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
I THINK that there’s always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
THERE’S a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.
BOY, DO I HAVE SOME STORIES TO TELL.
THERE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT when you are learning and growing.
YOU NEVER KNOW what could be interesting tomorrow.
I DON’T LIKE OVERT TRADITIONALISM.
I LOVE THE IDEA of having a kid who says, ‘Yeah, of course I knew about Billie holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.’
TIME IS NOT KIND TO EVERYTHING.
SUBTLETIES MEAN SO MUCH, AND THERE IS A STUNNING BEAUTY IN THEM.
MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS, I don’t know how many I’ve been through.
I REALLY HAVVE TO FEEL a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
EVERYBODY GROWS IN THEIR OWN WAY.
I TRY NOT TO THINK THE SONG TO DEATH. The main criteria is if it’s working on an emotional level.
WILLIAM FREIDKIN. “Exorcist” 1935-2023 “The French Connection”
ALL OF MY FILMS I HAVE MADE, THAT I HAVE CHOSEN TO MAKE, ARE ALL ABOUT THE THIN LINE between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That’s what my fins are about.
ONE OF MY THEMES IS THAT THERE IS GOOD AND EVIL IN EVERYONE and it’s a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.
BUT THE AUDIENCE IS RIGHT. they’re always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don’t believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.
I TEND TO BE ATTRACTED TO CHARACTERS WHO ARE UP AGAINST A WALL with very few alternatives. and the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that’s, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
IF STAR WARS HAD FAILED, you wouldn’t have 90 percent of what’s out there today.
STYLE is something that’s extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.
THERE IS A THIN LINE between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.
TO ME, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
TECHNIQUE IS OF LESS INTEREST THAN CHARACTER AND STORY.
WE ALL WIND UP THE SAME WAY, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.
THE ART OF MOVIES is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
THERE ARE MANY UNTALENTED PEOPLE making millions of dollars in the film business.
VIOLENCE IS NOT FUNNY.
IF YOU’RE A MOVIE STAR, the studios don’t want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs.
I don’t think sexuality defines a person, It’s one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.
BE POSITIVE!