Absences Quotes

I agree with Walter Murch`s theory that digital will never have the emotional or visual power of regular film, because audiences respond to absences. Regular film has a split second of blank screen between each shot, which the audience`s brain has to automatically fill in. Digital doesn`t have that, so it doesn`t engage the audience in the same ways. In all modernist literature, the most present thing is what`s absent. Like the opening of The Sound and the Fury, where they`re looking between the fence. Or in Closer the most important parts, the relationships, are missing and have to be filled in by the audience. Absences are crucial.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

Annette, with great patience and good spirit, tolerated my many long absences when experiments were carried out at distant laboratories.

There are things to learn in the reviews of how primary schools and nurseries alert parents of child absences. That is on-going.

Wives in their husbands` absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler