Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
Your God is too Small
What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do - walk right through death? What do you think?
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.
Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.
The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.
Christianity is not a religion at all but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and through him a falling in love with our fellows.
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.
As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.