If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.
More Quotes from Michael Cunningham:
Yet the writer's lot has particular satisfactions. When a novel is published, however it's received, ... it is the book you wrote, and a better version is not sitting on the cutting-room floor because your distributor insisted on 17 ill-advised cuts.Michael Cunningham
the worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction.
Michael Cunningham
a whole new way of living and thinking about ourselves suddenly burst upon us. And walking through all this, there's Walt Whitman saying 'I find it all remarkable and strange and beautiful'. I was so struck by his ecstatic moving through this terrible place, and I thought he should be the spirit and soul of the book.
Michael Cunningham
Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves.
Michael Cunningham
It has not been given adequate funding. It lacks all of the tools it needs, so this is an effort to revive this program.
Michael Cunningham
I'd have liked to tell him something I'd taken almost 60 years to learn that we owe the dead even less than we owe the living, that our only chance of happiness - a small enough chance - lay in welcoming change
Michael Cunningham
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Betrayal Quotes, Books Quotes, Movies QuotesBased on Keywords: unfamiliar
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
Charlie Watts
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman