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I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe. ↗


— Christian Bale


#i #never #playing #safe #want

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message. ↗


— Christian Bale


#between #character #complete #consumerism #difference

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. ↗


— J. G. Ballard


#commercial #computers #domestic #electronic #going

Now come,” he said. “Does your Alex love you back, or is he a hopeless idiot?” “He loves me,” she said quietly. “But I’m afraid he’ll stop after we marry. He’ll change his mind. He’ll—” “He’ll love you more. Trust me.” “Really?” She was far too somber. “Really.” He had no words to make her smile, and so Gareth tweaked her nose. And she giggled. It had been a long time since he’d laughed. But despite all those years, he still remembered how. What he’d forgotten was the lightness of his soul when he did so. The moment was perfect. ↗


— Courtney Milan


#gareth #laura #proof-by-seduction #change

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. ↗


— J. G. Ballard


#areas #because #came #emerging #england

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. ↗


— J. G. Ballard


#change #cultural #driven #exclusive #great

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. ↗


— J. G. Ballard


#fiction #film #imaginations #intensely #large

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗


— J. G. Ballard


#cars #children #deaths #elegant #fear

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet. ↗


— Robert Ballard


#almost #armstrong #before #buzz #enter

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! ↗


— Robert Ballard


#human #human race #i #i think #important






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