young gifted and black

“I would like to think that there’s something in the human personality that resents things that are too clear. It’s impossible to walk into a movie and not have a plan, but it’s best when you’re executing a plan and your eyes open to a lot of other things that are there. It makes it interesting; it makes it fun to go to work every day. That’s why we didn’t do too much talking about what we were doing, except to really focus on the intense love affair and friendship between these two guys. On that note, I remember reading a great book called Pacific War Diary by James J. Fahey. He talked about his absolute admiration for his masters and commanders, and when he would switch over to a different ship, how disappointed he was when he didn’t get a good master. It was hard for some fellows coming back from the war because they missed having someone telling them what to do. To suddenly be let loose and be of your own devices was incredibly difficult for a lot of guys. They really missed the comraderie and the kind of focus their lives had at sea.”

-Paul Thomas Anderson

“Love is too weak a word for what I feel – I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F’s, yes.”

“I showed a Paris not of the future but at least a modern city, a world already dehumanized” Louis Malle

Alice: But then when dad died you drank yourself to death with, with margaritas.
Alice’s Mother: I couldn’t help it darling. You know I couldn’t resist the taste of salt around the rim of a glass.