"When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life."
— John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces)

"All good work requires self-revelation."
— Sidney Lumet (Making Movies)

"Even a fool learns something once it hits him."
— Homer (Iliad)

"Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen."
— Robert Bresson (Notes on the Cinematographer)

"...what one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible..."
— László Krasznahorkai (War and War)

"But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…"
— James Joyce (Ulysses)