Steven Spielberg
The new generation of film-makers, I call the micro-chip generation. They've forgotten their literary roots. Our generation almost forgot our literary roots. But we were able to re-love the old movies, and in analyzing the old movies you find that it was much more story and writing than technique and directorial influence. It was much more the ideas that films were made up of that made them interesting to us. And then everything on top of that was icing on the cake, because John Huston directed.
Walker Percy
- The Moviegoer
I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I, too, met a girl in Central Park once, but it's not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach...
Walker Percy
- The Moviegoer--Walker Percy
Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it to us to invent the most undistinguished of corruptions. No orgies, no blood running in the street, no babies thrown off cliffs. No, we're sentimental people and we horrify easily. True, our moral fiber is rotten. Our national character stinks to high heaven. But we are kinder than ever.
Ronald Reagan
- Crocodiles
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Counting Joys
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
