“I Will Walk By Myself And Cure Myself In The Sunshine And The Wind.”

The Wishing Tree (1976) dir. Tengiz Abuladze

Seven Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa

Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena

Lily Gladstone as Jax Fancy Dance (2023), directed by Erica Tremblay

Nostos: il ritorno (1989) dir. Franco Piavoli

Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh written c. March 1882

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed”

— Friedrich Nietzsche (via neckkiss)

Never try to convey your idea to the audience – it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

— Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema, page 152

Stéphane Mallarmé, from Collected Poems and Other Verse; “The Afternoon of a Fawn,” (x)