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"Just read Ellison's review of the original Star Wars, and it's fun to think how on-the-nose he was about most of his observations. It being a western, dressed up in the guise of science fiction, about its influences in Flash Gordon; the works. What was most entertaining about his review was "the dispensers of mass information" all proclaiming in unison that "entertainment is back", like it's year of our lord 2025." — Sep 23, 2025 03:26AM
"Just read Ellison's review of the original Star Wars, and it's fun to think how on-the-nose he was about most of his observations. It being a western, dressed up in the guise of science fiction, about its influences in Flash Gordon; the works. What was most entertaining about his review was "the dispensers of mass information" all proclaiming in unison that "entertainment is back", like it's year of our lord 2025." — Sep 23, 2025 03:26AM
“intelligence is the ability of a living creature to perform pointless or unnatural acts.”
― Roadside Picnic
― Roadside Picnic
“All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. ”
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“Much worse is to be paralyzed by fear of failure. Society tends to evaluate us based solely on visible results. At times, I even sense an air of intolerance toward failure. No one wants to be branded as a failure. We hear adults belittle kids, saying they have no talent and so should give up and face reality, or that they'll fail no matter what, so they might as well not even try. Who wouldn't second-guess themselves if told something like that?”
― The Will to Keep Winning
― The Will to Keep Winning
“The two men see pornographic pictures. Strangely coiled naked bodies, performing unchaste acts in groups, in hopeless configurations.”
― The Twilight World
― The Twilight World
“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between.”
― Hitchcock/Truffaut
― Hitchcock/Truffaut
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