The Magnus Archives Quotes

“Sorry Elias, I can't hear you, there’s a door in the way.”
― Jonathan Sims, The Magnus Archives: Season 3

“Maybe we're all just broken inside. Unable to really grasp the difference between fictional people and people we just don't know. They're all just abstract ideas we're happy to have suffer for our enjoyment.”
― Jonathan Sims, The Magnus Archives: Season 3

“Cinematographer.” Such an ornate term, yet still so vague. I often wonder if that’s to blame for how overlooked we are as a profession. Or even worse, that dry title, “Director of Photography.” But we are the true artists. A director may quite literally call the shots, but it is the cinematographer that makes them. We choose the angles, the lighting, pretty much everything that you see on the screen. The camera is a brush, and we are the hand, the arm, the eye. The director’s basically just the mouth, making pointless noise while the hand does the actual work. Almost every famous director that you know who has a distinctive visual style has simply managed to lock down a talented DoP.”
― Jonathan Sims, The Magnus Archives: Season 3

“The moment that you die will feel exactly the same as this one.”
― Jonathan Sims, The Magnus Archives: Season 3

“So what? I don’t get to be angry? I don’t get to burn things? Just, just run around, making tea, while everyone else gets to actually have feelings?”
― Jonathan Sims, The Magnus Archives: Season 3