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41 " …some of us had built whole careers - pointing out how unfair and whimsical and chaotic the entertainment business was, how it rarely rewarded the truly talented. None of us could see how it never rewarded the inert "
― Patton Oswalt , Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
42 " Sprocket fiend is the name I have for the subterranean dimension to my film addiction. The subtle, beneath-the-sound-track sound of the clattering projector in those old rep theaters, especially the New Beverly. The defiant, twenty-four-frames-per-second mechanical heartbeat that says, at least for the duration of whatever movie you're watching, the world's time doesn't apply to you. You're safe in whatever chronal flow the director chooses to take you through. Real time, or a span of months or years, or backward and forward through a life. You are given the space of a film to steal time. And the projector is your only clock. And the need for that subtle, clicking sprocket time makes you - made me - a sprocket fiend. "
43 " And then it was gone. I tried to make it come back ... I replayed the song. I reread the passage. Nothing. You can't stage an epiphany. "
― Patton Oswalt , Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
44 " Movies, the truly great ones and sometimes the truly bad, should be a drop in the overall fuel formula for your life. A fuel that should include sex and love, and food and movement, and friendships and your own work. All of it feeding the engine. But the engine of your life should be your life. "
― Patton Oswalt
45 " Vincent van Gogh was a “tormented genius” the way Jimi Hendrix was a “guitar player.” I "