“I didn't know you were allowed to do that.”

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez's reaction to first reading Franz Kafka's “Metamorphisis.” It's also how Errol Morris felt when seeing Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary “The Act of Killing.” It's also how I felt—two times, nearly two decades apart—watching the movies of Quentin Tarantino.

Franz Kafka at 22.

Tags: Franz Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Quentin Tarantino, Errol Morris, The Act of Killing
Posted at 06:27 AM on Sat. Jan 18, 2014 in category Quote of the Day  

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