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July 14, 2020 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Ingmar Bergman on Art, Love, Film, and More.

  Happy birthday, Ingmar Bergman! Here are some quotes from the film director:   “I don’t want to produce a…

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March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Akira Kurosawa on Art, Dreaming, Madness, and More.

  Happy birthday, Akira Kurosawa! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker:   “To be an artist means never to…

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January 20, 2020 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that.”

  Happy birthday, David Lynch! 74, today!   “We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what…

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July 14, 2019 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The notion of love as the only thinkable form of holiness.”

  Happy birthday, Ingmar Bergman! Here are some quotes from the film director. “I don’t want to produce a work…

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July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 - Art, Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Find first, seek later.”

  Happy birthday, Jean Cocteau! Here are some quotes from the poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic.…

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June 22, 2019June 22, 2019 - Art, Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading

“The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that’s difficult to access—to a level that’s not material but spiritual.”

  Happy birthday, Abbas Kiarostami! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “It’s said that in the beginning was the…

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May 30, 2019 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You have to invent life.”

Happy birthday, Agnès Varda! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “I was free always.” “Memory is like sand in…

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April 4, 2019 - Film, Quotes

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”

Happy birthday, Andrei Tarkovsky! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “The allotted function of art is not, as is…

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March 29, 2019April 4, 2019 - Film, Quotes

“You have to invent life.”

RIP, Agnès Varda. Here are some quotes from the superb filmmaker. “I had a world. I don’t think I had…

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March 5, 2019April 4, 2019 - Birthday, Film, Quotes

“We survive, in the confusion of a life reborn beyond reason.”

Happy birthday, Pier Paolo Pasolini!  Here are some quotes and film stills from the filmmaker. “If you know that I…

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