“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
“In 1989, Linklater spent a night in Philadelphia with a young woman named Amy Lehrhaupt and it was this encounter that first sparked the story. Linklater recently learned that Lehrhaupt had died in 1994 – killed in a motorcycle accident just weeks before the first film began shooting. Before Midnight is, belatedly, dedicated to her memory.”
“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
Painting: Jesùs Leguizamo
“You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one’s life. … Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one’s clichés.”
Tom Robbins
“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.” — Lynda Barry
Photos: Kazha Imura
