Charles Burnett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itselfâ€¦In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.
-- Charles Burnett

#Giving #Stories #Form
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.
-- Charles Burnett

#Art #Reality #Romance
We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are too many stories that end happily and say very little about life.
-- Charles Burnett

#Police #Needs #Stories
There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.
-- Charles Burnett

#Technology #Thinking #Color
Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.
-- Charles Burnett

#Growing Up #People #Southern
With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.
-- Charles Burnett

#Real #Character #Personality

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
The form is always the measure of the obsession.

Charles Burnett famous quotes

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