“In the words of the distinguished Canadian director William Macgillivray, ‘If we lose the past, we lose the future,’ and today we have been essentially disinherited by corporate capitalism. It teaches us that all that is important is making money: enough money if you’re poor, more money if you’re rich. The enormously rich (in sense beyond the financial) legacy of the past can teach us so many different ways, not merely of thinking, but of feeling. It can reveal attitudes, complexities, emotions that today have been rendered either inconvenient or irrelevant.”
— Robin Wood (via Hollywood from Vietnam to Regan…and Beyond)