“Learning differently requires teaching differently.
We have to teach kids to teach themselves.”
Stephen Tonti
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
Robin Williams

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon
“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

Henry Miller

“Faith is not about believing but about letting go of beliefs. Faith does not hope and pray for things to be different sometime in the future. Faith is the still heart that refuses nothing, our willingness to trust things as they are.”
Hannah’s Gift by Maria Housden p147

There are talented people, and there are not talented people.
That’s a reality, it’s an unfortunate reality.
It’s a reality many people don’t like because most people don’t have talent.

So for a serious young film maker these are very depressing times when you leave everything to the crowd, then everything becomes democratised, where everything is determined by the number of clicks, you’re by definition undermining the seriousness of the artistic endeavour.

“She blew a kiss
it missed my face
and drifted into outer space
and kissed the sun
and made it smile
now it’s been bright
for quite a while.”
Dallas Clayton
“In order to make delicious food you must eat delicious food.
The quality of ingredients is important, but you need to develop a palate capable of discerning good and bad.
Without good taste, you can’t make good food.”
Jiro Ono
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
Audrey Hepburn