Still from The Leopard (1963) "This movie is about a time and a place and a process and a series of events that shaped California in an interesting way." David Fincher during preproduction on Zodiac. "When I pitched this movie to the studio all I said was "it's set in the 70s - like that's a story, like that's a selling point. And they were like "that's interesting.' But I felt this obligation to the seventies." Richard Linklater on Dazed And Confused Sometimes artists can b

Seeing a film in a cinema with a live audience is a sacred space. It is the essence of the origins of storytelling.

Indeed, through internet sites like Project Gutenberg I can read now some of the greatest works that humans have ever created! It is of course, ultimately up to us what we are to do with all of it - even if the decision is to have a machine “decide” for us.

Author and reporter Gay Talese reads a newspaper in New York City, in 1982 “I think that virtues are real. I think there are good things...

“One of the things about this time that is really hard on me is that temperamentally I really only like the quotidian and the small and I...

“At Bennington the self was a creation; the life was a kind of performance art.” Jonathan Lethem

I state all of this in this post only with the empowerment of hindsight,in the attempt to move towards giving an account in prose of my life

To live in one’s own time is to inhabit a world where we encounter and live with aesthetics that were largely others’ ideas and preferences.

Every single aspect of the arts is inextricable from and intimate with how each of us learns many different kinds of things in the world...