Jon Birondo

“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“don’t know what my life is about and don’t examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them.”
― Sidney Lumet, Making Movies

“What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time”
― Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

“If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being