Michael

“Gore cinema is not liberating (though the kids who flocked to the theaters may think otherwise), but suffocating, the work of cynical adults having a go at the vulnerability of children.”
― David J. Hogan, Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film

“Truth, it seems, is always bashful, easily reduced to silence by the too blatant encroachment of falsehood.

The prolonged absence of any free exchange of information within a country opens up a gulf of incomprehension between whole groups of the population, between millions and millions.

We simply cease to be a single people, for we speak, indeed, different languages.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“The eighty-five cent dinner tasted like a discarded mailbag and was served to me by a waiter who looked as if he would slug me for a quarter, cut my throat for six bits, and bury me at sea in a barrel of concrete for a dollar and a half, plus sales tax.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“Film has offered adventure, hope, fantasy, and escape for those of us encased in poverty, limitation, and quiet desperation.”
― David Thomson, How to Watch a Movie