Archive for the Quotes category
“Everyone is now an auteur” – Jean-Luc Godard
by 10k films on August 3rd, 2011
Godard in the 60s, with Anna Karina
Jean-Luc Godard: ‘Film is over. What to do?’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jul/12/jean-luc-godard-film-socialisme
À bout de souffle – the interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f74KrPjvtt4
Riding the tiger
by 10k films on June 25th, 2011
“If you ride the tiger, you can’t get off.” – Old Chinese proverb (Re: quote unquote – War on Terror – aka -War on Islam)
The Hero’s Journey
by 10k films on June 11th, 2011
1. THE ORDINARY WORLD. The hero, uneasy, uncomfortable or unaware, is introduced sympathetically so the audience can identify with the situation or dilemma. The hero is shown against a background of environment, heredity, and personal history. Some kind of polarity in the hero’s life is pulling in different directions and causing stress.
2. THE CALL TO ADVENTURE. Something shakes up the situation, either from external pressures or from something rising up from deep within, so the hero must face the beginnings of change.
3. REFUSAL OF THE CALL. The hero feels the fear of the unknown and tries to turn away from the adventure, however briefly. Alternately, another character may express the uncertainty and danger ahead.
4. MEETING WITH THE MENTOR. The hero comes across a seasoned traveler of the worlds who gives him or her training, equipment, or advice that will help on the journey. Or the hero reaches within to a source of courage and wisdom.
5. CROSSING THE THRESHOLD. At the end of Act One, the hero commits to leaving the Ordinary World and entering a new region or condition with unfamiliar rules and values.
6. TESTS, ALLIES AND ENEMIES. The hero is tested and sorts out allegiances in the Special World.
7. APPROACH. The hero and newfound allies prepare for the major challenge in the Special world.
8. THE ORDEAL. Near the middle of the story, the hero enters a central space in the Special World and confronts death or faces his or her greatest fear. Out of the moment of death comes a new life.
9. THE REWARD. The hero takes possession of the treasure won by facing death. There may be celebration, but there is also danger of losing the treasure again.
10. THE ROAD BACK. About three-fourths of the way through the story, the hero is driven to complete the adventure, leaving the Special World to be sure the treasure is brought home. Often a chase scene signals the urgency and danger of the mission.
11. THE RESURRECTION. At the climax, the hero is severely tested once more on the threshold of home. He or she is purified by a last sacrifice, another moment of death and rebirth, but on a higher and more complete level. By the hero’s action, the polarities that were in conflict at the beginning are finally resolved.
12. RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR. The hero returns home or continues the journey, bearing some element of the treasure that has the power to transform the world as the hero has been transformed.
Read the famous 7 Page Memo (Thanks D.M.)
If you could just be still
by 10k films on April 4th, 2011
If you could just be still,
stop rushing round and round
in search of God—
You’d find Him as your Ground.
Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer
by Angelus Silesius
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/index.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/scw01.htm
“Die Rose ist ohne warum; sie blühet, weil sie blühet…“
St Isaac of Syria: “If you cannot be still within your heart…”
by 10k films on March 2nd, 2011
“…If you cannot be still within your heart, then at least make still your tongue. If you cannot give right ordering to your thoughts, at least give right ordering to your senses. If you cannot be solitary in your mind, at least be solitary in body. If you cannot labor with your body, at least be afflicted in mind. If you cannot keep your vigil standing, keep vigil sitting on your pallet, or lying down. If you cannot fast for two days at a time, at least fast till evening. And if you cannot fast until evening, then at least keep yourself from satiety. If you are not holy in your heart, at least be holy in body. If you do not mourn in your heart, at least cover your face with mourning. If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be a troublemaker. If you cannot be assiduous, at least consider yourself lazy. If you are not victorious, do not exalt yourself over the vanquished. If you cannot close the mouth of a man who disparages his companion, at least refrain from joining him in this.
Know that if fire goes forth from you and consumes other men, God will demand from your hands the souls which your fire has burned. And if you yourself do not put forth the fire, but are in agreement with him who does, and are pleased by it, in the judgment you will be reckoned as his accomplice. If you love gentleness, be peaceful, if you are deemed worthy of peace, you will rejoice at all time. Seek understanding, not gold. Clothe yourself with humility, not fine linen. Gain peace, not a kingdom.”
~St. Isaac of Syria
“If everything is gone, nothing moves.”
by 10k films on December 3rd, 2010
from the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment 圓覺經
The Song of Bernadette
by 10k films on December 3rd, 2010
Opening panel from the film “The Song of Bernadette” (1943) Directed by Henry King (Watch full film here)
Change
by 10k films on December 3rd, 2010
“..[I]n the United States to a large degree, and in other Western countries, the basic elements of society have been so heavily fiscalized through contractual obligations that political change doesn’t seem to result in economic change, which in other words means that political change doesn’t result in change.” J.A.
The archetype of devotional homage
by 10k films on November 17th, 2010
‘… all devotional homage, all hero-worship worthy of the name, proceeds subjectively from the perfection which exists in every soul, even though, in the majority, it has been buried under the rubble of a fallen second nature. If the burial is too deep, the sense of values can be irremediably vitiated; but even a remote consciousness of the latent perfection is enough to serve as a basis for having ideals and to arouse in souls, at contact with actual perfection, the nostalgic recognition of a fulfillment which for themselves is also a possibility and a goal to be reached.’
The life of dreams
by 10k films on October 22nd, 2010
If you enter the life of dreams, O Soul, do not place your happiness in it, nor in the spectacle it exhibits to you, and do not suppose that it is real: else, when you wake, you will be a laughing-stock. The world of things that come to be and cease to be is a world of dreams. He who is asleep and dreaming (in the literal sense) in this world is in reality dreaming doubly; and when he wakes (in the literal sense), he is like a man who has been awakened from an ‘incidental’ sleep, but has given himself up again to his ‘natural’ sleep.
- Hermes