On the set of Mirror; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1975

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I was with them and yet I was alone.

— Albert Camus

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The best people are the ones you never meet.

— Charles Bukowski

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It is important that you go alone, almost as though you are coming to a ruin. You go through it and these things are your discovery.

— James Turrell; on Roden Crater

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Paris, 1973

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In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life — suffering, horror, love, loss, hate — all of it.

— Harry Dean Stanton

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It's very important to me that you use your soul.

— Gabriela Mistral

Tatort Essen, Das Mädchen von gegenüber; inszeniert von Hajo Gies, 1977

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A man alone is a neighbor of god.

— Majid Majidi

Nastassja Kinski in: Falsche Bewegung; dir. by Wim Wenders, 1975

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Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.

— Justin Welsh

Andrzej Żuławski; ph. by Tony Frank

Er scheint einem Paralleluniversum zu entstammen, einem filmischen Kosmos, dessen genaue Koordinaten schwer zu bestimmen sind.

— A. O. Scott

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The seats are empty. The theatre is dark. Why do you keep acting?

— Charles Bukowski

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On the set of Stalker; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979

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I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

— Susan Eloise Hinton

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes; dir. by Werner Herzog, 1977

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Play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing. Even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

— Thelonious Monk

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[Bangs; as always.]

Es ist selten, dass ein Mensch weiß, was er eigentlich glaubt.

― Oswald Spengler

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Life, and Nothing More; dir. by Abbas Kiarostami, 1992

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