As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Quentin TarantinoRead
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
Interpretation
Genuine interest is essential for engagement and learning.
Quentin Tarantino reflects on the importance of genuine interest in the learning process, suggesting that if he is not truly passionate about a subject, he is unable to even pretend to care. This highlights the idea that authentic enthusiasm is crucial for meaningful engagement and success in any field.
In practice
In a discussion on the importance of student engagement in classrooms.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.
Good books are for consideration after, too.
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