Milton H. Erickson Quotes

“You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.”

“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”

“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”

“Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'”

“Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.”

“When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.”

“Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.”

“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”

“Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.”

“Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?”