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Despite whatever efforts we may make, we live in the present. What happened yesterday is done and each day the train we ride in called Life will take us further from it. Only madmen can take up residence in their memories while the future remains an undiscovered country.
A good story is one that after I’ve told it to you, you understand why I wanted to tell it.
I once saw a slip of paper on which were written the five stages of movie production: (1) Wild Enthusiasm; (2) Total Confusion; (3) Utter Despair; (4) Hunt for the Guilty; (5) Punishment of the Innocent.
Gatherings, whether for music, church, plays, films, or ballets, are experiences to which you must make a commitment and in making that commitment, in leaving your home to devote yourself to that communal experience, you reaffirm your humanity.
The better a work of art, i.e., the more successful it is in the medium for which it was originally created, the more difficult its successful translation into another form is likely to prove.
