collected wisdom

A still from the 2001 film <n>Donnie Darko</n>.

A still from <n>Éric Rohmer</n>'s 1987 film <n>Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle</n>.

Filmmaker <n>Andrey Tarkovsky</n> in the 2019 documentary <n>Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer</n>.

Film still from <n>A Man Vanishes</n> (1967), directed by <n>Shōhei Imamura</n>.

Director <n>Richard Linklater</n> on the set of his 1995 film <n>Before Sunrise</n>.

A still of actor <n>Matthew Perry</n> from the TV show <n>Friends</n>, created by <n>David Crane</n> and <n>Marta Kauffman</n>.

A still from <n>The House is Black</n>, a 1963 film by <n>Forough Farrokhzad</n>.

A scene from the 1995 film <n>Before Sunrise</n>, filmed on the <n>Albertina Terrace</n> in Vienna.

<n>Anna Karina</n> in <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>'s 1961 film <n>A Woman Is a Woman</n>.

A still of <n>Kim Min-hee</n> in <n>Grass</n> (2018), a film by director <n>Hong Sang-soo</n>.

A still of <n>Brigitte Bardot</n> in <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>'s 1963 film, <n>Contempt</n>.

A still from the 1990 film <n>Henry & June</n>, directed by <n>Philip Kaufman</n>.

A still of <n>Carrie Bradshaw</n> from the television series <n>Sex and the City</n>.

A still from the 2016 film <n>i, Olga Hepnarova</n>, directed by <n>Petr Kazda</n> and <n>Tomas Weinreb</n>.

A still from the 1961 film <n>Blast of Silence</n>, directed by <n>Allen Baron</n>.

A still from the 1975 film <n>Mirror</n> by director <n>Andrei Tarkovsky</n>.

<n>Keira Knightley</n> and <n>James McAvoy</n> in a still from <n>Joe Wright</n>'s 2007 film <n>Atonement</n>.

A still from <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>'s 1966 film <n>Masculin Féminin</n>.

A film still from <n>The Aviator's Wife</n> (1981), directed by <n>Éric Rohmer</n>.

A still of <n>Anna Karina</n> in <n>Vivre sa vie</n> (1962), directed by <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>.

A quote from film director <n>Stanley Kubrick</n>.

A still from the 1974 film <n>Alice in the Cities</n>, directed by <n>Wim Wenders</n>.

A still from the 2022 film <n>Tár</n>, directed by <n>Todd Field</n>.

A still from <n>Éric Rohmer</n>'s 1981 film, <n>La Femme de l'aviateur</n>.

A still from <n>Éric Rohmer</n>'s 1970 film, <n>Claire's Knee</n>.

A message on solitude from director <n>Andrei Tarkovsky</n>.

Actor <n>Lelia Goldoni</n> in <n>John Cassavetes</n>' 1959 film, <n>Shadows</n>.

A still from the 1949 film <n>Late Spring</n> by director <n>Yasujiro Ozu</n>.

A still of <n>Chantal Goya</n> in <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>'s 1966 film <n>Masculin Féminin</n>.