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Description begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience. It ends with your translating what you see in your mind into words on the page.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
on The Cabin in The Woods
In Poland, we have a saying, “when something doesn't make sense, it's probably about money."
But it’s like boobs are Velcro. You can practically hear the ripping sound when a guy finally looks up.
Bev Potter • Why Can’t Men Stop Staring At Our Boobs?
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play.
Through movies that make the unthinkable enjoyable, wrote Sontag in her 1965 essay The Imagination of Disaster, “one can participate in the fantasy of living through one’s own death and more, the death of cities and the destruction of humanity itself”. Contemplating annihilation can certainly be a valuable means of reckoning with death, loss,
... See moreDorian Lynskey • ‘End of the World Vibes’: Why Culture Can’t Stop Thinking About Apocalypse
SDJ: I went in and I pitched the idea of MIRACLE MILE to Mark Rosenberg who was the head of production at Warner Brothers (Marks brother Alan is part of the ensemble of diner actors in MIRACLE MILE this meeting is discussed in the Johnies cast reunion on the Blu-Ray). I pitched him the idea: What would you do if that phone rang? They liked the
... See moreDavid Bertrand • Interview: Director Steve De Jarnatt Looks Back on Cult Classic MIRACLE MILE
Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
All That Backlash? Jerrod Carmichael Saw It Coming.
slate.com