It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.
Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.
I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'
Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control.
The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.
