“Creating your own magic by definition is someone who thinks differently ... YOU are an outsider. No one will take you seriously. You have to prove your posits so unequivocally that no man or woman or machine can deny your work. And then you have to do it over and over again. That is the hard work of making your way into the circle of people taking you seriously and believing you. It’s not new. In fact, it has been repeating across human history. Everybody who’s anybody started as nobody.”
— Sean Everett [CEO PROME & Editor of Humanizing Tech]
“This tapedeck you brought is physically smoldering A road catalog of history frozen These voices you call a bitter sweet morning It must mean so much, this forgotten touch It used to be fun, but we were young Has-been dream, irreverent It used to be fun, but we were young This used to be fun, now we’re in love You set me up when you wake the ghost in me, as you shake the ghost in me You said enough to wake the ghost in me No mistake, this ghost in me has found a home I miss the breath and the dust I seem ashamed to be broken And here stands the cross Our story got sorted I won’t sleep again til’ I here it come to the end I remember now, how it all turned out It used to be fun, but we were young I feel so bad, we were had It used…”
— Nicole Monninger, Brian Aubert, Christopher Guanlao, Garret Lee, Joseph Lester
“It was actually the last time I spoke to him, the Friday before he passed away ... we were watching a movie, Remember the Titans. I loved it, but I was so surprised he liked that movie. I remember talking to him about the site then. It was something that gave him energy. I was joking with him that we were all worried about some things being difficult, but we were missing the most important one, the biggest challenge of all ... deciding which employees are going to sit in the main building ... and which would have to work in the outer buildings. And he just got a big laugh out of it.”
“For me, the Gluttony scene was about darkness ... when the detectives come into the room, it’s very old and shiny — greasy. There is not supposed to be light there. So when they aim their flashlights, the light shines back to them. Turn them off, and the room would be black. The room itself was underexposed, but we would overexpose the flashlight beams to really pick them up, though they were already two to three stops over the room. To have them fill the room a bit, I put bounce cards here and there in the corners and on the floor. I tried using reflector cards, but the look was too vulgar ... But what we also did differently on this picture was to underexpose so much, to go into the darkness. And only the director can lead you so far, because you can’t go by yourself. David Fincher deserves a lot of credit. It was his influence that pushed me to experiment and got me as far as I did on Seven.”
