“As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings – not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.” ~~Ralph Bakshi

“I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.” ~~Tim Burton

In honor of The Immortals coming out in theaters across the nation, this week we thought we would go old school with a quote from the great poet Homer. What better to get you through the day than some wisdom of the ages? “Light is the task where many share the toil.” ~~Homer

“I have always had different aspects to my personality. I think I’m a long-term pessimist and a short-term optimist. I do feel a great darkness about humanity. But — simultaneously and contradictorily — I also feel that life can be pretty fabulous. I should also express some of that in my work; I don’t want to limit myself as a...

“Personally I like the slow burn; I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling,...

“How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo Da Vinci had written at the bottom of the canvas, ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover’? This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.” ~~Stanley Kubrick