Notes On Blogging Aesthetics XX

"Marty has a love of the little incidental details that add up to something of enormous consequences," he says. "The way a glass is held. The way a steering wheel is turned. The way a man lights his pipe. It's as if he has a layer peeled off his eyeballs-- he doesn't miss anything."
-- Ben Kingsley, talking of working with Martin Scorsese on Shutter Island, quoted in this week's Entertainment Weekly.