I know that I am true to the things I am interested in. I like stories to unfold in certain kinds of ways, and I don’t like shorthand, and I don’t like to be told who’s evil. I don’t want to know who the villain is, I don’t want to know who the hero is.…

Being nationalistic in the sense in which it is now demanded  by public opinion would, it seems to me, be for us who are more spiritual not mere insipidity but dishonesty, a deliberate deadening of our better will and conscience. Friedrich Nietzsche

misanthropevibes: The miracle of my life that I was able to hang in there long enough to outlive my bad behavior. When I was young, I was really angry and fucked up. The arts drew me right out of that and gave me choices…Through the arts, I’ve worked with some of the most talented people…

When Mahler is sad, it is a complete sadness; nothing can comfort him, it’s like a weeping child. And when he’s happy, he’s happy the way a child is—all the way. And that’s one of the keys to the Mahler puzzle: He is like a child; his feelings are extreme, exaggerated, like young people’s feelings.…

Tradition is the handing on of the flame, not the worship of ashes. Gustav Mahler (via for-k-is-king)

Films and paintings are all things that you control. To take an idea and translate it into something material is a beautiful process. It’s thrilling to the soul! David Lynch (in ‘Lynch on Lynch’)

The streets were dark with something more than night. Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business (via liquidnight)