“Whatever your brilliance, your pessimism, your thoughts about existence, the answer is always... Life. It's not a dialectical idea, it's a lived contradiction. Gramsci said, 'We have to be pessimists in our thinking and optimists in our actions.” - Agnes Varda
"If you don't get physically ill after seeing your first rough cut, something is wrong. You always think you're not gonna get physically ill... But you do." - Martin Scorsese