Daniel

“Let’s say that the average age in the audience is twenty-five years. Six hundred times twenty-five equals fifteen thousand years of human experience assembled in that darkness—well over twice the length of recorded human history of hopes, dreams, disappointments, exultation, tragedy. All focused on the same series of images and sounds, all brought there by the urge, however inchoate, to open up and experience as intensely as possible something beyond their ordinary lives.”
― Walter Murch, In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

“The theatrical/cinematic experience is really born the moment someone says, “Let’s go out.” What is implicit in this phrase is a dissatisfaction with one’s familiar surroundings and the corresponding need to open oneself up in an uncontrolled way to something “other.” And here we have the battle between motion pictures in the home and cinema, for I’ll venture that the true cinematic experience can’t be had in the home, no matter how technically advanced the equipment becomes.”
― Walter Murch, In the Blink of an Eye

“Consider the boundaries you need to conserve your energy and operate at your best.”
― Miranda Hart, I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
― Philip Yancey