#me

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away. ↗

— Mary Hart

#blew #come #films #me #most

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. ↗

— Albert Camus

#murder #dating

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗

— John Betjeman

#childhood #dark #grows #hour #measured

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#any #budgets #europe #films #intent

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#absolute #careers #grasp #i #just

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#baddies #because #british #go #here

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread! ↗

— Paul Bettany

#bread #buy #fact #forever #lasts

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#along #came #five #i #jobs

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#best #enhances #given #make #may