#w

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

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#being #business #distinctive #glasses #i

People can't help how they look. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#how #look #people

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

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#comfortable #coming #feel #funny #funny thing

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#censored #idea #movie #no idea #original

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#case #dry #far #i #ideas

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#executed #gentle #laws #obeyed #seldom

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#capable #down #find #i #kind

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#audience #i #liberal #mind #open