Quote

A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.

Yann Martel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Least
Movie
Kinetic
Experience
Aesthetics
Tends
Incredibly
Boxes
Cinema
Joy

More quotes by Yann Martel

Image
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
Yann Martel
Image
It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
Yann Martel
Image
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
Yann Martel
Image
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
Yann Martel
Image
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
Yann Martel
Image
Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
Yann Martel
Image
If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
Yann Martel
Image
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
Yann Martel
Image
I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
Yann Martel
Image
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
Yann Martel
Image
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Yann Martel
Image
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
Yann Martel
Image
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
Yann Martel
Image
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
Yann Martel
Image
I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
Yann Martel
Image
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
Yann Martel
Image
Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
Yann Martel
Image
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
Yann Martel
Image
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
Yann Martel
Image
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
Yann Martel