Reeling Through Life Quotes

“We all need the comforting illusion of stability and security in this shaky rooftop of a thing we call life. Tevye is right; we are all fiddlers, trying to scratch out a simple tune without breaking our necks.”
― Tara Ison, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies

“And sometimes those remembered images aren’t even accurate; in revisiting some of the movies I discuss here, I’ve been surprised to realize that what I remember about a particular movie moment, the influential lesson that has stayed with me—how to kiss in the rain, what to say to my shell-shocked parents about their divorce, where in the linen closet to hide the liquor—sometimes doesn’t actually exist in the film. It’s a trick of memory,”
― Tara Ison, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies