"The object of our search should not be the supernatural, but the world. The supernatural
is light itself: If we make an object of it, we lower it."
Simone Weil (via arterialtrees)
By having Ripley watch the children turning on the sidewalk, I mostly wanted to show that life went on while this horrible thing took place. It’s like the spider we see before the railroader’s execution in La bataille du rail. It is more important than this man sentenced to the firing squad, who is already nothing. And he isn’t even dead yet, while the spider ambles about freely, accountable to no one. And here, see these children enjoying themselves, dancing in a circle, far from this tragic events safe in their own world… - René Clément on Plein soleil
“That was another thing he liked about her, how she reacted, said what she wanted, rejected or accepted things, she was so presumptuous, so modest, so aggressive, or so simple: constantly transforming within herself.”— Ingeborg Bachmann, from Three Paths to the Lake; “Word for Word,”
Fassbinder doing sci-fi is a cinephiles wet dream alone, but the fact that the cinematography uses Eva’s reflection in almost every shot subconsciously telling you that she herself is a mere reflection of a human being is just superb.
the handbags of Hitchcock: dial m for murder (1954), north by northwest (1959), psycho (1960), marnie (1964)
I know that I can seem like I’m kind of being a bit lazy, but I do really feel like a certain caliber of inarticulateness [is] the closest I’m going to get to knowing myself, honestly. I actually feel like I’m the worst version of myself when I’m completely certain. I’m not kind to people I love and my work is less true to me, but when I spend time wading through my indecisiveness, or whatever has temporized me, I get as close as I’ll probably ever get to knowing my true self.
Durga Chew-Bose
"My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another."
Susan Sontag (via creatingaquietmind)
(Source: middlenameconfused)