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.
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.
When individual members and families immerse themselves in the scriptures regularly and consistently, β¦ other areas of activity will automatically come. Testimonies will increase. Commitment will be strengthened. Families will be fortified. Personal revelation will flow
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
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