“We Must Break Free From The Economic Model That’s Rigged Against The Majority." - Winnie Byanyima

I've wasted the greater part of my life looking for money. It's about 2% movie-making and 98% hustling.

— Orson Welles

Image: Warrior of the Worlds, a graphic novel series that finds the filmmaker leading a double life as he battles alien invaders, Scout Comics.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anais Nin

"The world’s most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a small amount of goods, nor a relation between means and ends. Above all it is a relation between people.” - Marshall Sahlins

Photo by Megan Laws

Open mouth, already big mistake. - Zen Saying

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” - Carl Sagan  

Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field Fingerprint https://www.sofia.usra.edu/multimedia/image-galleries/galactic-center

"Those writers who have gotten humanity to care about the natural world — which is the world — have done so because they themselves have moved through it with a sense of wonder, each of them an Alice making a Wonderland of Earth. " - Maria Popova in Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland

Artwork by Jim Woodring

“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” - Bill Hicks 

https://nerdist.com/bill-hickss-principles-of-comedy/

Photo: Alex Webb, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1982.

“Everything in the [media art industrial complex] is unusual. It’s like hot plasma. It changes so damn fast.” - Rene Pinnell

Artwork by Abu Bakarr Mansaray.

"The last thing I want to do is develop media to get in the way of person-to person interchange because I think all communication should end with either a handshake or a kiss." - George C. Stoney

“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes

Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.