#rod

Frodo: I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I'm naked in the dark. There's nothing--no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes. Sam: Then let us be rid of it, once and for all. I can't carry the ring for you, but I can carry you! Comeon! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#j-r-r-tolkien #return-of-the-king #sam #the-lord-of-the-rings #food

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#efforts #film #hours #i #knowledge

It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman. ↗

— Peter Weir

#back #balance #could #fact #found

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. ↗

— Terry Southern

#director #named #practically #producer #unheard

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #anyone #art #avoids #been

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#farming #human-development #production #thought #war

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#amount #down #films #five #four

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab. ↗

— David Wenham

#feature #i #love #produce #really

From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show. ↗

— Randy West

#any #companies #contestant #eligible #game

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else. ↗

— Timothy West

#car #cheaply #could #decorated #else