If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.


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Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi...
MATTHEW HENRY
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m...
MATTHEW WEINER
Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
My rule is to break one sweat a day.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
MATTHEW GREEN
Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I ...
MATTHEW STEWART
I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous...
MATTHEW STEWART
You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends...
MATTHEW LEWIS
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
MATTHEW HENRY
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do ...
MATTHEW BARNEY
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technolo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd nev...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for somet...
MATTHEW DESMOND
The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impressi...
MATTHEW DESMOND
It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
MATTHEW DESMOND
I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, t...
MATTHEW DESMOND
When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.
MATTHEW DESMOND
Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidi...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to tak...
MATTHEW DESMOND
There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time se...
MATTHEW DESMOND
You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for tha...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
MATTHEW DESMOND
Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental we...
MATTHEW DESMOND
You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this th...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
MATTHEW DESMOND
An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
MATTHEW DESMOND
Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the aver...
MATTHEW DESMOND
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.
MATTHEW LEWIS
The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS
I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: 'If...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD
I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
MATTHEW PERRY
America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an internatio...
MATTHEW STEWART
If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like...
MATTHEW DADDARIO
I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN
You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
MATTHEW QUICK