#nip

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#artists #began #beginnings #beloved #between

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#american movies #angry #audience #cynically #even

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#away #been #characters #four #getting

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. ↗

— John Spencer

#allows #cutting #cutting edge #edge #experimentation

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#manipulation #mexico #more #myth

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#manipulating #music #poem #shadows #tonality

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#accumulate #data #declining #ends #ignorance

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. ↗

— John Sununu

#behavior #code #companies #corporate #economic

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hopes #judgment #learn #manipulation #merely