Christian Bale // "I’ve got this love-hate thing with work. But I actually think the love-hate thing is quite a healthy thing to have. If all you do is love...then you’re just going to imitate what you love, right? It takes people to fucking hate it at the same time to make any sort of change to what they’re doing, you know? And to me, that’s when it becomes interesting."
Josef Albers (& Anni Albers) // "Learn to see and to feel life…because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it."
Raymond Carver // "It's possible…to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things…a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring…with immense, even startling power."
Chantal Akerman // "Today is Saturday and I’m going to make a film about laziness."
Virginia Woolf // "Go deeper, beneath what people said."
Gil Scott-Heron // "Life inevitably translates into time. That is why the sum total of it is called 'a lifetime'. Freedom is the potential to spend one's time in any fashion one determines. I would always want the time invested in my ideas to be profitable, to give the reader something lasting for their investment in me. It is very important to me that my ideas be understood. It is not as important that I be understood. I believe that this is a matter of respect; your most significant asset is your time and your commitment to invest a portion of it considering my ideas means it is worth a sincere attempt on my part to transmit the essence of the idea. If you are looking, I want to make sure that there is something here for you to find."
Edward Gorey // "All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important... You can describe all the externals of a performance...everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else."
Federico Fellini // "One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction."
David Lynch // "We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination."
Saul Bellow // "I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction."
Anne Sexton // "Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen."
Maurice Ravel // "I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."