#epic

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis. ↗

— Joel Coen

#any #basis #depict #how #movie

He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. "You look hot." "What? Me?" I stammered, completely flummoxed. "Yeah," he said, still looking at me. "Oh. Um, thank you. I mean, not that you don’t, but I’m not sure that you should—I mean …" "Oh, no," Roger said quickly, and I could see that he was blushing again. "No. I mean—I meant what you’re wearing. Are you going to be too warm? ↗

— Morgan Matson

#amy-roger-s-epic-detour #funny #roger #funny

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#distinct #drama #energy #epic #experiences

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #depiction #governs #logic #mass

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live! ↗

— Amy Lee

#darlings #epic #i #live #music

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. ↗

— David Lynch

#depict #doorway #flat #movies #mystical

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#beautiful #depict #fall #feels #flaws

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them. ↗

— Mike McCready

#contract #course #decided #epic #fulfillment

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#birthday #boston #celebration #city #epic