“All of us failed to match our dream of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. In my opinion, if I could write all my work again, I am convinced that I would do it better, which is the healthiest condition for an artist. That’s why he keeps on working, trying again; he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won’t, which is why this condition is healthy. Once he did it, once he matched the work to the image, the dream, nothing would remain but to cut his throat, jump off the other side of that pinnacle of perfection into suicide. I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.” - William Faulkner

White House.

“I don’t hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I don’t. I don’t! I don’t hate it! I don’t hate it!”

“A Rose for Emily.”

Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake.

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

Based on “Turnabout.” Story & Dialogue by William Faulkner.

“As I Lay Dying.” (via)

William Faulkner. 1930’s.

“Sanctuary.” First published 1931.

“Movies and I don’t agree chronologically. In Oxford there is one show at seven o’clock, and the town goes to bed at nine-thirty. It’s not that I don’t like the movies, but my life just isn’t regulated that way.” - William Faulkner  

Howard Hawks, William Faulkner, and Harry Kurnitz.