***But what if my order is chaos? How's that for you Mr. West? Also, without some kind of structure, how can one really analyze and assess anything? Hmm... Externally imposed order is foolish, in that it is impossible to accept an external order. Your brain won't do it. So I agree that it has no meaning for whom it is imposed upon.***
“I like my movies made in Hollywood.” — Richard Nixon
***This from the man who later, in his autobiography Beyond Peace (1994), claimed: "Hollywood is sick... Its values are not those of mainstream America." So I don't think he really liked movies much at all, or really knows much about mainstream America either. OR understands the concept of values or morals, for that matter.***
“Only the perverse fantasy can still save us.” — Goethe, to Eckerman
***I'm not sure that I've got a handle on what Goethe is talking about here. I do agree that fantasy is a large part of progress towards the saving of humanity, but I think there's more to it than perversion. Challenging assumptions, sure that part of
perversity is important, but the part of perversity that involves reenacting Pasolini's Salo is not OK.***
“Behind the initiation to sensual pleasure, there loom narcotics.” — Pope Paul VII
***From the opiate of the masses itself.***
“By the displacement of an atom, a world may be shaken.” — Oscar Wilde
***If just one may make incredible harm, perhaps the work of one can make comparable benefit to others.***
“Film is the greatest teacher, because it teaches not only through the brain, but through the whole body.” — Vsevolod Pudovkin
***And this is why I am currently torturing myself and others by making narrative films. Documentaries generally preach to the converted, but narrative/fiction films might fool people into seeing them without knowing the content of the film. Like I got suckered into going to "Dreamcatcher", a film so awful, I'd never have spent money on it if I'd not been tricked by the trailer.***
“The cinema implies a total inversion of values, a complete upheaval of optics, of perspective and logic. It is more exciting than phosphorus, more captivating than love.” — Antonin Artaud
"'Don't go on multiplying the mysteries,’ Unwin said, ‘they should be kept simple. Bear in mind Poe's purloined letter, bear in mind Zangwill’s locked room.’
‘Or made complex,’ replied Dunraven. ‘Bear in mind the universe.’" — Jorge Luis Borges
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I love opinions. But I must say that honey catches more flies than vinegar, and even though I made it through Salo, I don't want to live my life with tons of vile nastiness. So please be honest and polite.