“Without Music, Life Would Be A Mistake.”

American Sniper (2014)

dir. Clint Eastwood

Flamingo Road (1949)

“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”

— David Lynch

Nostos: il ritorno (1989) dir. Franco Piavoli

La vallée fantôme, Alain Tanner, 1987

“I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.”

— Charles Reznikoff, from, “Autobiography: New York,” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff, ed. Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press, 2005)

“In a sense, I’m the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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