Flicker Quotes

“The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats.”
― Theodore Roszak, Flicker

“We spend our youth hunting for the reality we think lies on the other side of our illusions. What we find at the other end of our search is what lies on the other side of the movie screen: a dark and desolate space that only reveals the unreality of what we pursued. So we spend our adulthood trying to recapture the illusions. Few of us do.”
― Theodore Roszak, Flicker

“Dumnezeu e-n ochi. La fel si Diavolul, de fiecare data cand clipesti.”
― Theodore Roszak, Flicker

“Ochii sunt portile raiului si iadului.”
― Theodore Roszak, Flicker

“Meanwhile, as the party ascended to ever dizzier alcoholic altitudes...”
― Theodore Roszak, Flicker

“in capitalist society there is an inherent tendency for the attention span of each successive generation to diminish as the experience of alienation increases,”
― Theodore Roszak, Flicker

“Dumb as I was about movies at that stage of my life, I had no trouble understanding her response. Vampires. Even I knew that wasn’t art, wasn’t the least bit like the things we came to The Classic to see: movies about tortured relationships, despair, and the meaninglessness of life—like La Strada, The Bicycle Thief, or The Seventh Seal. Really good movies, as I understood it, made you want to go out and drown yourself. Vampire”
― Theodore Roszak, Flicker