"Stanley wants to shoot the sex scene in one shot, and the camera would reveal that I have underwear on. I agree to do it naked. I'm scared. There's a disease going around the world right now. There is a lot of paranoia and hysteria about all the different ways you cam catch it. Some people think it can be spread by mosquitoes. That you can get it off door handles. Nobody knows for sure. And since I don't either, I start obsessing about the fact that this lady is going to have her vagina wide open while she sits on my back. She'll be straddling me like a person on top of a pony. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say. I figure Stanley will be sympathetic; after all, look at all the rumors about him and his phobias.
Stanley thinks I'm insane."
- Matthew Modine on making the movie "Full Metal Jacket"
Stanley thinks I'm insane."
- Matthew Modine on making the movie "Full Metal Jacket"
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
