‘Discarded things give more honest portraits of people’
Author - Andrew Thayne
Born in Luton, Gross Britannia, my life ambition was to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. But, as I entered my teens, after being introduced to the films of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan (at an illegal age, I might add), it soon dawned on me that this ambition was merely a liking for the kung-fu genre. On being exposed to the works of Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar-wai, Yimou Zhang and Katsuhiro Otomo while still at a young age, this liking grew into a love of Asian cinema in general.
When not eating dry cream crackers, I like to critique footballing performances, drink a beer, pretend to master the Japanese and Hungarian languages and read a book.
I have a lot of sugar in my diet, but not much salt.
‘Don’t buy timber, buy a mountain’
“She can’t wait to enjoy the corrupt life of capitalism”
‘It shouldn’t just be Murin Khuur and throat singing. We’re not living in the past.’
"A chivalrous robber, like us."
“I’m wondering if we choose relationships based on the premise that people are there to hurt us.”
‘Showbusiness people would not listen to you from a rural area like this town.’
The birth of a child does not necessarily mean the birth of a father