The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
Language is much closer to film than painting is.
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being
Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration.
Not everyone can or wants to go straight.
And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obamas way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.