May 29, 2014

“Ultimately martial art means honestly expressing yourself.” “Man listen. You see—really—to me, ok, to me, ultimately martial art means honestly expressing yourself. Now it is very difficult to do. It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel like pretty cool and all that. Or I can make all...

Sep 26, 2013

“It is the game of “what if?”. You take that which is known, and you extrapolate – and you keep it within the bounds of logic, otherwise it becomes fantasy – and you say, “Well, what if?”. That’s what speculative fiction is, and at its very best, it is classic literature, on a level with Moby Dick and Colette and Edgar Allan...

“I’m not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I’m sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.” Rob Zombie

“What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic,...

“You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.” George Lucas

“You’re either going to believe in the fact that we’re by entirely genetic luck, so from day one where you have atomic storms — inconceivable storms that will go on in this nucleus, in which the dirt bowl will find some reason to start growth on everything — was that created? That may have been accidental, because I think there are...