Unexpected Perspectives Quotes

Art is meant to disturb.

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

Everyone has something interesting to say.

The message of great art is to disturb.

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

The moment I'm interested in, the moment I'm working toward in these stories, is when the familiar world seems strange.

By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.

You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.