Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker
And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late 60s and 70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used. – Ted Demme
I just want to do Gods will. And hes allowed me to go to the mountain. And Ive looked over, and Ive seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. – Katharine Butler Hathaway
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be – William Golding