Cormac McCarthy

  • WSJ: But is there something compelling about the collaborative process [of filmmaking] compared to the solitary job of writing?
  • CM: Yes, it would compel you to avoid it at all costs.
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“Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?” 100 Greatest Quotes from The Wire

This is the never ending struggle, I think storytelling is the most powerful art, for me. I just think there’s nothing more satisfying than the narrative thrust: beginning, middle, and end, what’s gonna happen. The thing I’m always bumping up against is that photography doesn’t function that way. Because it’s not a time-based medium, it’s frozen in time, they suggest stories, they don’t tell stories. So it is not narrative. So it functions much more like poetry than it does like the novel. It’s just these impressions and you leave it to the viewer to put together.
The fact is that late in 1929, people were throwing themselves out of windows on Wall Street. This year they’re lining up for bonuses. There has been no serious self-examination on Wall Street of what has occurred and what should be in the future.
Phil Angelides FCIC Chairman
The Exposure Project: Heather Rasmussen’s DestructConstruct “based on found photographs of shipping container accidents downloaded from the Internet. “

The Exposure Project: Heather Rasmussen’s DestructConstruct “based on found photographs of shipping container accidents downloaded from the Internet. “