46 Quotes by J. Andrew Schrecker

I think the fundamental drive for most anyone, whether their actions are innocent or more nefarious in nature, is that everyone just wants to have value. Unfortunately, our ideas of what that means are often too vague to act on, if not misshapen by an ever-difficult world.

There are worse things thandying alone or afraid, such asdying unafraid, or dying twice,or dying to live.

I think part of the reason escapism is a predominate aspect of American arts—especially cinema—is because that’s what’s in our DNA. Our ancestors came here to avoid whatever was happening where they were originally from. Escapism is literally in our genes.

Let us shed digital skin, makeMecca of faces. Let us be mirrorsfacing mirrors, the spaces wecontain made infinite byone another's unbroken gaze.

If you always wait until the last minute to do something, you'll discover most things only take a minute to do.

There's a lot of humiliation inliving, but that's okay, for ifthe gods are always laughing,then surely at times they mustbe laughing with us.

Old movies already inprogress, already passed overtwice, watched with indifferenceuntil orchestras swell overhappy endings, new beginnings.The images black and white,the lie white. (Ours is a world ofheroes and of winners, and rarelyare they one in the same.)

Countries are no longer nations, but businesses.

To say that film and television are the same thing is to say poetry and the novel are the same simply because they are words written on a page.