A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. … - Kenneth Anger

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If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

Kenneth Anger

A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

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I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

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I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

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Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

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Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer.

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I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is fall asleep, and you can have fantastic vision. I know Baudelaire and people like that enhance their dreams with opium or something. But films are very constructed - they're like architecture. They're pieced together, glued together. To me, it's a craft. It's like making a tapestry.

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