Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.
When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.
The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.
You have to really enjoy (being sexy). Not fake anything. Sexy is being in the moment, whether that means being coy or coming on hard. Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to.
-there was something in her, something that was. . . pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.
I have heard so many stories of contractors, and I've met some, too, who worked for Donald Trump, produced the goods and services and never got paid for what they were owed.