It's not the job of films to nurse people.

With what's happening in the chemistry of love, I don't want to be a nurse or a doctor, I just want to be an observer. I do believe that this kind of love exists and has nothing to do with taboo*. I don't think cinema is there to victimize or accuse people. Cinema has another aim.

from Spectacularly intimate: an interview with Claire Denis

*sobre o tema incesto

There will be no other reality tonight.

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.

from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?*

* E. E. Cummings

painting with shapes

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

by Alexander Calder

The greatest weight

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?

from The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

amor à simetria

ao Kubrick e aos supercuts do Kogonada