Quote of the Day – Louis Malle
Even when awake, southern Indians seem to me drowsy, lifeless, absent. – The late French film-maker Louis Malle in the documentary Phantom India
Today’s Quote: Chinese Words & American Movies
After all the years abroad, he [Imre Galambos] is good at comparing different cultures. He taught both Chinese and American students, and he tells me that Americans don’t have the same relationship to the written word that he noticed among the Chinese. For the Chinese, writing seemed to be the root of their cultural identity, […]