Quotes for All
The script [of Regression] wasn’t the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro [Amenabar] and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It’s an interesting thing. I’ve had that before. I was directed by … Read more
I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time. Ethan Hawke
Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. … Read more
Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is to be fully born, to develop one’s awareness, one’s reason, one’s capacity to love to such a … Read more
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits. Franz Grillparzer
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer… its anti-intellectualism… its puerile hymns… and its faith-healing… are made to order for King Kid America. Florence King
One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but – how to say this – the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, \”Here … Read more
All these things, social media or [smart] phones or the things that distract us from each other, are fairly new. They’re all fairly new inventions, and I think we’re in a stage where we sort of as a whole have gotten these new toys and we’re just obsessed with playing with them. I feel like … Read more
To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth. Connie Zweig
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise! Christopher Hitchens