Quote of the Day: Nothing up my sleeve

“I’ll snatch this story from the depths, by shock tactics. And if fate’s against me I’ll deal with fate. I’ll cheat it with a card trick.”

“The best of films is that it’s all a card trick done in front of the audience without letting them see what’s up one’s sleeve.”

~ Jean Cocteau, Diary of a Film.

Inspiring words! I urge filmmakers to keep them in mind and to remember also the words spoken to the poet in Cocteau’s OPRHEE: “Astonish me.”