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sculpting in time

What is the essence of the director's work? We could define it as sculpting in time.
Andrei Tarkovsky
B: 1932 / N: Russian

Russian maestro Andrei Tarkovsky made films about why life is worth living and why death is worth dying. He took up the mantle of locating meaning in the evanescence of …

—p.41 Filmmakers on Film: How They Create, Craft and Communicate by David Jenkins
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film can't just be a long line of bliss

'Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle!'
David Lynch
B: 1946 / N: American

To source ideas and images for his films, David Lynch plunges into the pool of his subconscious via transcendental meditation. What makes his work so exception…

—p.29 by David Jenkins
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film can't just be a long line of bliss

'Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle!'
David Lynch
B: 1946 / N: American

To source ideas and images for his films, David Lynch plunges into the pool of his subconscious via transcendental meditation. What makes his work so exception…

—p.29 by David Jenkins
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a feeble version of what heterosexuality could be.

Straight men have already made it loud and clear that many of them are in it for the sex and free labor, so their work is not to acknowledge this but to recognize it as an utterly incomplete mode of desiring women—a feeble version of what heterosexuality could be. For straight women and men, accoun…

—p.164 The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward
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the privileges associated with heterosexuality

These are promising approaches, and there is no doubt that the gravity of the tragedy of heterosexuality requires a wide array of tactics. And yet my years of teaching and writing about heterosexuality have led me to rethink whether offering queerness to straight people, where queerness is defined …

—p.157 by Jane Ward