There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
Dave GrohlRead
Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.
Interpretation
Film transcends storytelling, offering new perspectives and images that challenge our imagination.
In this quote, Steven Rodney McQueen emphasizes the unique power of film to transcend mere representation and storytelling. He points out that cinema has the ability to present captivating visuals and ideas that viewers may not have previously envisioned, effectively expanding their imagination and awareness of the world. By suggesting that film serves as a vehicle for unseen possibilities, McQueen highlights its transformative potential in the realm of art and personal experience.
In practice
In a discussion about the impact of cinema on culture.
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
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