When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.
It's always nice to know people are watching and having their own ideas about things and it's nice when your audience starts trying to guess what's going to happen, it means they're really interested.
You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.
There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.