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"I’m open to most genres. I like to play around with genre though…28 Days later was a Zombie Movie with no Zombies in it in my opinion; Slumdog was a Fairy Tale in genre terms but there are moments of real darkness in it; 127 Hours was an Action Movie about a guy who couldn’t move… Trance is supposed to be a heist movie or an amnesia movie, or a femme fatale movie. but it’s all of those things and none of those things really. the genre hooks are macguffins that give us a route into exploring ideas about perception, reality and madness."

Danny Boyle, on Reddit

"[Artists are] not commodities that you just put up on the shelf and you bring down when you need to. Art is just as important in your society as economics is and as politics is. And if it’s not serving that purpose, then it’s just a wank thing. It’s just your own personal self-gratification. It should be there to inform, to educate and to open up vistas for other people. We’re standing on the shoulders of people who came before us trying to do something."

Clarke Peters, in an interview with The AV Club.

"…You put the blinkers on and you just run toward the goalposts and do as much as you can. Which is kind of what you do in life. You’re carrying your whole biography with you, but you’re not thinking about it. It just naturally informs what you do."

Clarke Peters, http://www.avclub.com/articles/clarke-peters-on-red-hook-summer-treme-and-perform,84326/

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, screenplay by Eric Roth, adapted from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.