Dr. Suess
How did it get so late so soon? ― Dr. Seuss
Category: Filmmaker
Nora Ephron
What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. ― Nora Ephron
Johnny Knoxville
Honestly, you just take a deep breath and say fuck it. — Johnny Knoxville
Akira Kurosawa
I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time. — Akira Kurosawa, Iriku/To Live. (1952)
James Cameron
Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option. ― James Cameron
Ashley York
Sometimes you have to leave where you came from to find your voice. And other times, you have to return to that same place to listen for a deeper understanding. — Ashley York, from the documentary Hillbilly (The Orchard Production Co., 2019)
Rob Reiner
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that’s a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. ― Rob Reiner
Richard Siken
Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break. And there are other rules, like anything can happen. As well as you will not get exactly what you want. — Richard Siken
Richard Siken
They kept asking me, ‘What does the poem mean? What does the poem mean?’ And it was frustrating me because poems don’t mean. They suggest. They enact. They provoke. — Richard Siken
Jean-Luc Godard
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. ― Jean-Luc Godard
The Vale of Soul-Making 