Ginger Magnum

“One night, my younger brother and my father sat me down in a kind of dark living room. My brother is very responsible, as is my father. They had a little chat with me. It almost broke my heart, because they said I should get a job and forget Eraserhead. Well, I did get a job: I delivered the Wall Street Journal , and I made fifty dollars a week. I would save up enough to shoot a scene and I eventually finished the whole thing. And I started mediatating. Jack Nance, the actor who played Henry, waited three years for me, holding this thought of Henry, keeping it alive. There’s a scene in which Jack’s character is on one side of a door, and it wasn’t until a year and a half later that we filmed him coming through the other side of the door. There’s an expression: Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole. If you keep your eye on the doughnut and your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself. But you can get inside and do

"If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted…but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn’t wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me." Duane Michals

“With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: ‘My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.” Love in the time of cholera.-Marquez