If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
Lisa blamed , and the preconceived notions about men (especially dangerous men) that it tended to form in the impressionable adolescent mind.
When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.
The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
Early on I quickly realized I'd never be the fastest or the strongest, but not once have I entertained the notion I couldn't be one of the toughest.
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.
