Danae Elon famous quotes

I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.
-- Danae Elon

#Cameras #Jerusalem #Found

I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but the reality you are setting it within.
-- Danae Elon

#Integrity #Reality #Thinking

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters.
-- Danae Elon

#Character #Men #Views

I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.
-- Danae Elon

#Character #Advice #Female

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.