Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers on the set of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick, Self-Portrait, 1949
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“The reason is curiosity. A limitless, never satisfied, ever renewed, unbearable curiosity, drives me forward, never leaves me in peace. […] I note, I observe, I look everywhere; everything is unreal, fantastic, frightening, or ridiculous. I catch a speck of dust floating in the air; maybe it’s the germ of a film — what does it matter? It doesn’t matter, but I find it interesting, therefore I insist that it is a film.”
— Ingmar Bergman; from “Images: My Life in Film” (1994)
“That is exactly how I imagined paradise: silence and tears, and the warm silk of your knees.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, from “Beneficence,” The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage International, 1997)
“I wanted to get away to some beach fringing the sea, and burrow under the sand-clogged pebbles. I wanted to look at the sea until I was lost in the middle of it.”
— J.M.G. Le Clézio, from War (Vintage Classics, 2008;
first published 1970)
“Pleasure in this respect is like photography. What we take, in the presence of the beloved object, is merely a negative film; we develop it later, when we are at home, and have once again found at our disposal that inner darkroom, the entrance to which is barred to us so long as we are with other people.”
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Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove
(via talesofpassingtime)
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“I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.”
— Ingmar Bergman, from the film Ansiktet ( Svensk Filmindustri, 1958)
Lumière Brothers - The Serpentine Dance (c.1899)
Brilliant. The Lumiere Brothers filmed this in black and white, and then hand coloured (probably with little paint brushes) each frame of the film. You can see the full movie here.