Solon Quotes

You make so many strides between the first and second game, so I like the way this schedule has worked out. We'll have an extra week to do a lot of instructing before taking on Solon. - Kurt Kreiter

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement. - Todd Solondz

When we reflect how difficult it is to move or deflect the great machine of society, how impossible to advance the notions of a whole people suddenly to ideal right, we see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the na. - Thomas Jefferson

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh. - Todd Solondz

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one. - Todd Solondz

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top. - Todd Solondz

What I tried to do, as best I could, was keep a kind of balancing act in motion... I have my prejudices and politics and so-forth, but if I was going to err, I wanted to err in favor of the Christian conservatives, since it's not the world that I come from. Keeping this balancing act was essential for me, since the point is that the film is not trying to convert one... but rather for the audience to have to examine some of their own preconceptions about whichever position one is taking. - Todd Solondz

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case. - Todd Solondz

We were missing some people, so we used some different people in different spots... We're fairly happy with the way we played, but we wish we could have won some of the close games. But we were in almost every game. - Solon

We really struggled in all facets tonight. We didn't shoot well and we had a lot of turnovers. Solon Springs came in ready to play and they took it to us. But our kids really buckled down when they needed to and that allowed us to get the win. - Jack Nelson