The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.
I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and musicmovieswhat have you, not having the guts to mean anything.
The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.
To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.
To me, that's where memories are very interesting because what happens when we start losing memories? What happens when you can't take your memories with you? Who are we without our memories, without our past?
Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.
In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle, the main goal must be to awaken people’s consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.
Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation
• As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.