"Inside of us is the source our happiness. When it’s chaotic and noisy, then the world can be troublesome. That’s why we meditate. …That’s what we’re working on."
Russel Simmons, at the Ideal Academy
AMADOU & MARIAM
"Inside of us is the source our happiness. When it’s chaotic and noisy, then the world can be troublesome. That’s why we meditate. …That’s what we’re working on."
Russel Simmons, at the Ideal Academy
"“We wish Muslims to be free and happy in Canada but we insist they are reasonable. Driving in a burka is not reasonable to us. It is dangerous. Asking for a thumbprint instead of a photograph on a driver's license or passport is not considered reasonable here."
-Congressional hearing on the radicalization of Muslim Americans
-Congressional hearing on the radicalization of Muslim Americans
JOHN HUSTON
Everything must serve the idea- I must say this again and again. The means used to convey the idea should be the simplest and most direct and clear. I don't believe in overdressing anything. Just what is required. No extra words, no extra images, no extra music. But it seems to me that this is a universal principal of art. To say as much as possible with a minimum of means. And to be always clear about what you are trying to say. That means, of course, that you must know what you are trying to say. So I guess my first principle is to understand myself, and then to find the simplest way to make others understand it, too.
EGYPT
"We can fulfill the people's demands in a civilized way. We will not receive instruction from anyone. No one makes this decision for us."
"You have gained your liberty. You have gained your right to catch up with the rest of the world. Make the best of it."
-Hosni Mubarak, departing words
BLACK MARTINI
"Kids today don't appreciate quality pictures. I wanna give 'em Ben-Hur! Cecil DeMille! All they wanna see these days is Monroe's tits and that faggot James Dean" -Hollywood Producer Michael H. Zweig
Afterschool plays like a film student’s demo reel of the various ways to signify “alienation”—shallow depth of field, over-lit sterile interiors, ambient sounds of fluorescent light hums, expressionless actors, methodical tracking shots frequently overrunning or catching up to their human subjects....you’d think Afterschool’s 24-year-old first-time feature director Antonio Campos had just discovered them for himself by the way he embarrassingly assaults the viewers with them in order to fashion his astonishingly shallow portrait of teenage disaffection.
-Reverse Shot
This movie is the most delicate movie. I can’t imagine having a more delicate movie. It just did not work until everything worked. It was just pieces until everything was perfect, every single thing. You got the pace right, you got the music right, the sound effects. It just wouldn’t work. I literally thought we were in trouble. It went from like no movie to heaven in like ‘boom’ like that, because it was just so delicate. It wouldn’t let me do anything to it that it didn’t want.
-m night shyamalan on the village
It’s not important to me if the film is predictable or unpredictable. In fact, I almost prefer the film to be inevitable. That the unfolding of events in the film proves itself to be something that you could have predicted could happen. I think that this view of cinema enables you to get out of the way of “surprise”. If you look at Macbeth, for example, the witches basically tell you what will happen. The pleasure becomes not WHAT will happen, but WHY it happens. “What” will happen creates art that has a limited shelf life. Once you know the answer, it becomes irrelevant. If the question is why, it never ceases to be interesting. That for me, is a higher calling for any creative work.
-James Gray
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