Thom Andersen quotes

People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.
-- Thom Andersen

#Book #People #Mind

How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.
-- Thom Andersen

#Attitude #Ideas #Say Anything

When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.
-- Thom Andersen

#Support #Film #Easier

I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not all I'm interested in. In that sense, it's maybe a little misleading. I don't expect to make another movie about films, but I may continue to write about them.
-- Thom Andersen

#Teaching #Writing #Cinema

In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.
-- Thom Andersen

#Teaching #Dvds #Able

It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.
-- Thom Andersen

#Teacher #School #Ideas

For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality.
-- Thom Andersen

#Reality #Way #Rich

An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.