20,000 Days on Earth

     

20,000 Days on Earth2014

Stars: Nick Cave, Susie Bick, Darian Leader, Warren Ellis
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Music
Rating: NOT RATED
Runtime: 97 minutes

20,000 Days on Earth is a 2014 British musical documentary drama film co-written and directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Nick Cave also co-wrote the script with Forsyth and Pollard. The film premiered in-competition in the World Cinema Docume… more »


Nick Cave:
All of our days are numbered. We can not afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world; a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame, great things can be constructed around it; things that are massive and powerful and world changing. All held up by the tiniest of ideas.

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