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🇺🇸Norman Mailer

Literature

1923–2007

"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity — it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."

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🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky

Religion

Surrealism

b. 1929

"That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it."

"Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment."

"Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it."

"Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories."

"The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years."

"Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul."

"You come into this world a zero, and you leave a zero."

"I have to keep making films in my country so that it gets established as an industry at home."

"Feminism should be a fight for fairness. Instead the fight is only to control outcome. And when feminists don’t like outcome, they assume something’s unfair. Like fools. Most of the left is the same way."

"When all the hope is gone, there is no reason for pessimism."

"I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do."

"As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old."

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🇮🇹Michelangelo Antonioni

Entertainment

1912–2007

"I would like to make clear that I speak only of sensations. I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."

"The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art."

"It is a part of puberty that we just want to go somewhere far away. We only have a vague image, like behind that mountain or a place more beautiful..."

"People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries."

"George, if you deport the police from America, you get Mexico."

"Netflix has already gone mainstream. Not mainstream but they’ve gone snob. They have an angry housewife who’s making all the selections."

"An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station."

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"I’m single and my entire youth was spent enjoying time with friends, but these times I’m trying to be more responsible and take more care and use my energy in cinema. It makes me happier."

"...Indian cinema does not stand for just Bollywood. Kolkata is the place of Satyajit Ray..."

"There would always be a bunch of fucking grousers and nay-sayers being like "that was uncalled for."

"Bohème Magazine Ikiru: The Art of Living"

"The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity."

"The Lyric Poet Of The Silent Screen: A Profile of Buster Keaton by Chris Wood"

"Good ideas can go bad because they’re made for the wrong reasons. The mission isn’t the right mission. Even though all the players may be noble players, the mission itself is fundamentally flawed."

"There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories."

"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation."

"Joni, what fucking chords were you playing on Court and Spark? I could never figure them out."

"This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning."

"I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be."

"All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."

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