Reads tagged with “film”

The Timekeeper: Behind the Scenes of Humanity’s Most Accurate Atomic Clocks, Which Dictate Our Daily Lives

“Time is a coordinate that lets us most simply understand the evolution of the universe.”

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The Life and Death of Mountains

The humility of understanding how Earth’s most monumental creations crumble to the bottom of the sea.

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The 10 Stages of the Creative Process

Listen to your hunches, sponge up ideas, let them marinate, and know when you’re done.

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Dustin Hoffman on What It’s Really Like to Be a Woman

Show this to every man, woman, and child you know.

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Secrets of The Phantom Tollbooth: Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer on Creativity, Anxiety, and Failure

“Failure is a process… You have to fail over and over and over again to get anything that’s worthwhile.”

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George Lucas on the Meaning of Life

“There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.”

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A Solitary World: A Poetic Cinematic Homage to H.G. Wells

“What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?”

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Dream of Life: The Ultimate Documentary on the Iconic Artist Patti Smith

“Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.”

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November 27, 1965: A Rare Recording of Stanley Kubrick’s Most Revealing Interview

“People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who can become emotionally involved with an abstraction.”

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Milton Glaser on Art, Technology, and the Secret of Life

“You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.”

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Reads tagged with “film”

“Time is a coordinate that lets us most simply understand the evolution of the universe.”

The humility of understanding how Earth’s most monumental creations crumble to the bottom of the sea.

Listen to your hunches, sponge up ideas, let them marinate, and know when you’re done.

Show this to every man, woman, and child you know.

“Failure is a process… You have to fail over and over and over again to get anything that’s worthwhile.”

“There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.”

“What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?”

“Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.”

“People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who can become emotionally involved with an abstraction.”

“You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.”

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