Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.
It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.
For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.
Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.
'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U. S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.
I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry. He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.