Prince // "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life."
Andrei Tarkovsky // "Filmmakers can be divided into two categories: those who strive to imitate the world they live in, to re-create the world that surrounds them...and the directors who create their own worlds. Those who create their own worlds are generally the poets... That is why they have trouble getting their films out. Because the audience is used to a symbolic, nonexistent film world...the result of the audience’s own interests and tastes. The directors I named have all opposed this...that the taste of the audience should be the deciding factor. Not because they want to be obscure, but because they actually want to listen secretly. To give expression to what is deep inside those we call the audience."
Bruce Lee // "Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man... Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
Yohji Yamamoto // "I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future... I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after."
Joan Didion // "What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you’re alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it is that you might use to try to control the world by closing it out. I want to tell you to just live in the mess. Throw yourself out into the convulsions of the world."
Vincent Cassel // "People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite...but this is only an appearance, because the way we’re built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions."
W. Eugene Smith // "I am searching for that which is real of my heart, and which when completed I can stand humble to one side of and say: 'This is it, this is how I feel, this is my honest interpretation of the world; this is not influenced by money, or trickery, or pressure...except the pressure of my soul.'"
David Hockney // "If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive."
Jorge Luis Borges // "We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men."
Jack Nicholson // "I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, 'Please, just don't talk about me!' Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me."
Alan Moore // "In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take."
James Baldwin // "For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."