The Crash Reel Quotes

#1. The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#3. LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.

Mina Loy

#4. Once, my writing-avoidance behavior involved me mixing up a cleaning concoction and getting some ancient stains out of the carpet. My wife liked that one.

Tim Pratt

#5. ...living is merely the chaos of existence...

Yukio Mishima

#6. Temperament refers to inborn, biologically based behavioral and emotional patterns that are observable in infancy and early childhood; personality is the complex brew that emerges after cultural influence and personal experience are thrown into the mix.

Susan Cain

#7. Man's life is militia against man's malice.

Baltasar Gracian

#8. Busy idleness urges us on.

Horace

#9. Don't learn safety by accident.

Jerry Smith

#10. It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

Jan Peacock

#11. Hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it. Hope resists, hopelessness adapts.

William Sloane Coffin

#12. I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

Lucy Walker