#tempo

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#audiences #between #closest #contemporary #educated

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#contemporary #ending #films #popular #twist

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. ↗

— Sean Penn

#american soldiers #attack #civilians #innocent #innocent civilians

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. ↗

— Max de Pree

#cultures #holds #leaders #listened #must

...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence... ↗

— John Geddes

#impermanence #secret #temporary #beauty

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#contemporary #dead #doing #filmmakers #friends

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#believe #condition #countries #current #current situation

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#back #buying #changed #contemporary #contemporary art

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#contemporary #expedience #justice #law #rule

I've always been attracted to temporary families. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#attracted #been #families #i #temporary