Coming from a weekend of reading.
"People ask me sometimes what makes a filmmaker world-class. What makes a filmmaker or an artist or a painter world-class? This is where I want to introduce you to the 'sariling duende.' You know FIlipinos are the most creative people in the world. I believe that, I've been around, huh... We have it. What makes this 'sariling duende' come out? First of all, what's a 'sariling duende?' Every one of us has a unique worldview, a unique frame of the world. No matter how, sabay lang palagi tayo sa McDo o sabay lang tayo sa sine.. each of you has such a unique frame. Pare, saan galing yon? Sa tatay mo, sa nanay mo, siguro lumaki ka sa may dagat sa bundok. Lumaki ka sa Forbes Park... The input there... 'yung first catechism teacher mo na [gay] o 'yung first math teacher mo na fashista. You know, all this combination of inputs into your psyche, you are going to be looking, perceiving the world in a unique way. And 'yun lang naman is what's required to make a person a world-class filmmaker, artist, lawyer, or whatever."
- Kidlat Tahimik (lifted from Making Documentaries in the Philippines, Isabel Kenny)
"... is not only our most prolific art form but [it] rivals all activities - work, play, eating, excercise - for our waking hours. We tell and take in stories as much as we sleep - and even then we dream. Why? Why is so much of our life spent inside stories? Because, as critic Kenneth Burke tells us, stories are equipment for living."
- Robert McKee (lifted from Making Documentaries in the Philippines, Isabel Kenny)
"Mulford and others (1998) used a micro-level theory. The researchers' theory was that a halo effect explained why one person misjudged another's behavior. A halo produces expectations. People expect a person who has one visible positive feature (e.g., highly physically attractive) to also possess other less visible positive traits (e.g., cooperative in a game involving money)... Researchers found that based on the other player's physical appearance, people regularly misjudged how cooperative the other player would be. As predicted by the halo effect, people regularly overestimated the cooperativeness of attractive people and therefore tended to lose money to them."
- W. Lawrence Neuman, Basics of Social Research, why we tend to get disappointed when we realize cute people are actually human too and highly capable of being less than perfect
" No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, to which Fr. Ferriols would answer, 'Lundagin mo, beybe.'
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When I look at your life, mine tends to seem so small, and it ends up like we're miles and miles apart. new post @ lovely nameless little hill
- Kidlat Tahimik (lifted from Making Documentaries in the Philippines, Isabel Kenny)
"... is not only our most prolific art form but [it] rivals all activities - work, play, eating, excercise - for our waking hours. We tell and take in stories as much as we sleep - and even then we dream. Why? Why is so much of our life spent inside stories? Because, as critic Kenneth Burke tells us, stories are equipment for living."
- Robert McKee (lifted from Making Documentaries in the Philippines, Isabel Kenny)
"Mulford and others (1998) used a micro-level theory. The researchers' theory was that a halo effect explained why one person misjudged another's behavior. A halo produces expectations. People expect a person who has one visible positive feature (e.g., highly physically attractive) to also possess other less visible positive traits (e.g., cooperative in a game involving money)... Researchers found that based on the other player's physical appearance, people regularly misjudged how cooperative the other player would be. As predicted by the halo effect, people regularly overestimated the cooperativeness of attractive people and therefore tended to lose money to them."
- W. Lawrence Neuman, Basics of Social Research, why we tend to get disappointed when we realize cute people are actually human too and highly capable of being less than perfect
" No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, to which Fr. Ferriols would answer, 'Lundagin mo, beybe.'
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When I look at your life, mine tends to seem so small, and it ends up like we're miles and miles apart. new post @ lovely nameless little hill