by Peter | Feb 15, 2019 | borrowed thoughts
The actors I like most are those who have an air of mystery about them, who don’t make themselves bigger than the story they’re telling. I’ve tried to be like that myself. I think, as a storyteller, you’re interested more in the darker aspect of things. Often...
by Peter | Jan 11, 2019 | borrowed thoughts
It’s very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well…… Fortunately I wrote stuff that people didn’t like. I dodged a bullet there. And it suddenly dawned on me – that’s why I’ll never win the love of the American public. They want...
by Peter | Aug 22, 2018 | borrowed thoughts
Although photography generates works that can be called art – it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure – photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made....
by Peter | Aug 22, 2018 | borrowed thoughts
The reason that a Mobius strip gives one a strange sensation is that, conceptually, the distinction between “front and back” which ought to be clear has become ambiguous and vague; this phenomenon, however, can also occur with other dualities such as “inside and...
by Peter | May 28, 2018 | borrowed thoughts
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stencilled from the real, like a footprint or a death mask. Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from...
