"Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts."
- Kate Jacobs (via hellanne)
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
- Margaret Atwood (via kitty-en-classe)
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Sundays with Michael
I hold my breath and count to ten, I stand and sit, then stand again. I cross and then uncross my legs, the planes are flying overhead. The dial turns with every twist, around the watch, around his wrist. Resting there with pen in hand, who could ever understand? The way he writes of all I dream, things kind yet cruel and in-between, where underneath those twisted trees, a pretty girl fallen to her knees. Who could know the world we’ve spun? I shrug my shoulders and hold my tongue. I hold my breath and count to ten, I stand and sit, then stand again.
"Silence is cinema! We are so used to sounds; we’re always talked at. Silence is very rare for us for a long duration of time. It makes people very uncomfortable. But what it does, it also forces us to perceive on a much deeper level because we can no longer just be told things. Silence is like gold. In terms of cinema from a story perspective, silence forces the audience to engage more, because if they’re not being told what to think, then they have to put in the subliminal elements. I love that personally and I think it’s an obligation we have, because then the audience and the film interact. You’re not just passive, you penetrate each other."
- Nicolas Winding Refn (via gerrymaravilla)
