Seances Movie Quotes & Sayings

Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity. — Mata Amritanandamayi

When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had. — Merlin Mann

I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very good at writing poetry. I mean, the distillation, I think, is hard for me, but I love poetry. — Jesmyn Ward

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world. — Brian Tracy

His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing. — Richard Russo

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right. — Josh Fox

The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and Evan, but the way they present themselves is totally different. One of them is this big Russian nesting doll of movie narratives and the other is much shorter experience on the internet. — Guy Maddin

To be an adult is to be close to death. — Eva Hoffman

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? — Paulo Coelho

Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies. — Guy Maddin