#per

It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#comes #daughter #home #idea #into

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#everything #great #like #paper #pen

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #certain #certainly #circumstances #doctors

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#condensed #experience #generation #his way #incontrovertible

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#big #box #censorship #clear #course

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#american #american citizens #call #censors #citizens

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone. ↗

— Georg Solti

#always #am #any #friendly #friends

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#anywhere #century #disease #diseases #else

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#clearly #conscience #humanity #justice #own

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#experience #literature #lived #ourselves #sole