Charlie Kaufman Reminds Screenwriters Who They Really Work For
The temptation for many filmmakers is to console too soon, or to console in the wrong ways; to encounter those who give us some fresh and necessarily unpretty version of “how it is” can be a tremendous relief.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
Academia stifles cinema, encircling it like a liana vine wraps round a tree, smothering and draining away all life. Construct films, don’t deconstruct them. Create poetry, don’t destroy it. Whenever I encounter film theorists, I lower my head and charge.
Paul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
"I worship at the alter of intention and obstacle." — Aaron Sorkin
By choice or accident; there are no other means.