Dorothy B. Porter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

  • People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.

  • Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

  • I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.

  • The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

  • Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them

  • Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

  • That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

  • Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

  • There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

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