As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Quentin TarantinoRead
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
Interpretation
Genuine interest is essential for engagement and learning.
Quentin Tarantino reflects on the importance of genuine interest in the learning process, suggesting that if he is not truly passionate about a subject, he is unable to even pretend to care. This highlights the idea that authentic enthusiasm is crucial for meaningful engagement and success in any field.
In practice
In a discussion on the importance of student engagement in classrooms.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
You don't need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don't want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives.
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the most fertile genius to say only what is new, would be to contract his volumes to a few pages. Yet, surely, there ought to be some bounds to repetition; libraries ought no more to be heaped for ever with the same thoughts differently expressed, than with the same books differently decorated.
So I think that good journalism helps you to zoom out, to focus on the structural forces that govern our lives. And I think that good journalism is also not only about the problems, but also about the solutions, and the people who are working on these solutions.
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
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