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Real Creativity is Terminal
Art provides a clear, safe channel to transmute the overflow of every big feeling across the wild spectrum of the human experience. Art is medicinal. 🤍
— Victoria Erickson
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“Acting should be terminal… It’s in the text somewhere; it’s in my heart and my mind somewhere, and I spend all my time and energy and love trying to find it, trying to transmit it. That’s what I think acting should be. You honor the playwright’s words, and you find a character out of those words, and you marry the director in your heart and you follow him and pray he follows you.”
— Marlon Brando
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…you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Rural families are very violent. Almost all parents are farmworkers Everybody barely manages to survive. They’re exhausted from working all day long, they end up drinking and when they get angry, they’re better at hitting than talking...But children don’t live it as an ominous thing, they hold no grudges, and those blows leave no trace on their hearts.
But Nakata’s father was a university professor, and his mother, as I could tell from her letters… belonged to the elite of the big city. And if violence was…
