Chris Milk Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience.”
-- Chris Milk

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“For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.”
-- Chris Milk

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“My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.”
-- Chris Milk

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“I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.”
-- Chris Milk

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“Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.”
-- Chris Milk

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“Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.”
-- Chris Milk

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“As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".”
-- Chris Milk

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“What if instead of seeing a neighborhood that reminds you of the place you grew up in, you see your actual neighborhood? The data exists. The technology exists. It's just a matter of sourcing it and processing it in a compelling fashion.”
-- Chris Milk

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“Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.”

“It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.”

“There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.”

“I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would say divine-creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.”

“For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.”

“When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.”

“Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”

Source : Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.