James Marsh
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James Marsh
James Marshis an English film and documentary director best known for his work on Man on Wire, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and The Theory of Everything, the multi-award winning biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking released in 2014...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 April 1963
hawking holes infinitely ponder scary
Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.
bath coming course days element famous head hit human isaac jumping knowledge newton playful realm remember school visual
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.
emptiness empty finish
There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.