Quote of the Day (Filmmaker Sally Potter, on Age As a ‘Kind of Fiction’)

“I've always done things at the wrong age. Being too young to do stuff seemed to go on forever until I was about 42 and then suddenly I was too old. So I realised that age, and time itself in fact, are a kind of fiction to which are attached stereotypes, caricatures, all kinds of notions that we internalize about stages of life. Part of me relishes being a renegade in that particular department.”—Director-screenwriter Sally Potter, on releasing her debut album at age 73, quoted by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “ ‘Part of Me Relishes Being a Renegade,’” The Financial Times, June 24-25, 2023

The image accompanying this post, showing Sally Potter at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, was taken Feb. 26, 2020, by Harald Krichel.

Quote of the Day (Bette Davis, on Why She Was ‘Doomed to an Eternity of Compulsive Work’)

“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”—Two-time Oscar-winning actress Bette Davis (1908-1989), The Lonely Life (1962)

Quote of the Day ('Derek Zoolander,' on His Greatest Achievement)

“Being the first in my family to graduate from modeling school.”— "Derek Zoolander" (played by Ben Stiller), when asked about his greatest achievement, quoted in “Derek Zoolander Answers Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire,” Vanity Fair, February 2016 issue

One can only imagine what other words will spring from his lips in Zoolander 2.